Medical Laughter and Medical Polemics: The Woodward − Mead Quarrel and Medical Satire

This article is based on a case study that is part of a larger approach of eighteenth-century medical controversies and literary genres. It reviews the comic genres at play within a pamphlet war, and shows how they partake of a larger culture of medical laughter. It examines the controversy between...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sophie Vasset
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Société d'Etudes Anglo-Américaines des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles 2013-12-01
Series:XVII-XVIII
Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/1718/514