During the 18th century medicine became an autonomous discipline and practice. Surgeons justified themselves as skilled practitioners and set themselves apart from the unspecialized, hack barber-surgeons of early modernity. This title presents 17 essays on the relationship between medicine and literature during the Enlightenment.

Acknowledgements, Contributors, List of Figures, Introduction, I. Spiritual Sickness and Hypochondria, II.Health and Emancipation, III.Madness, IV. Anatomized and Aestheticized Bodies, V. Birth, Notes, Works Cited, Index

Tristanne Connolly, Steve Clark