Medical Paratexts from Medieval to Modern

Hannah C. Tweed is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of York, UK, on the ‘Cultures of Care’ project. She received her PhD from the University of Glasgow, UK, on representations of autism in contemporary literature and film. Her research focuses on twentieth and twenty-first century literature, with specialisations in disability studies and the medical humanities. Diane G. Scott is the Research Associate for the AHRC Digital Transformations Theme and teaches in the department of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Glasgow, UK. She received her PhD on late medieval book history from the University of Glasgow, UK. Her research focuses on fifteenth and sixteenth century literacy and literary culture.

• 1. ​Foreword: Jeremy J. Smith.- 2.Authority, Authenticity and Representation: An Introduction to Medical Paratexts: Hannah C. Tweed and Diane G. Scott.- 3. ‘[P]rophane fidlers’: Medical Paratexts and Indecent Readers in Early Modern England: Harry Newman.- 4. Touching Twins in the Texts and Medical Paratexts of Seventeenth-Century Midwifery Books: Louise Powell.- 5. Graphic Surgical Practice in the Handbills of Seventeenth-Century London Irregulars: Roberta Mullini.- 6. Profit and Paratexts; the Economics of Pharmaceutical Packaging in the Long Nineteenth Century: Laura Mainwaring.- 7. Remedies for Despair: Considering Mental Health in Late Medieval England: Natalie Calder.- 8. The Medical Paratexts as a Voice in the Patient’s Chamber: Speech and Print in Physick for the Poor (1657): Elspeth Jajdelska.- 9. Archives, Paratext and Life Writing in the First World War: Hannah C. Tweed.- 10. ‘Nonsense Rides Piggyback onSensible Things’: The Past, Present, and Future of Graphology: Deborah Ellen Thorpe.- 11. Medical Marginalia in the early printed books of University of Glasgow Library: Robert MacLean.