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- Title
Phrenological Controversy and the Medical Imagination: 'A Modern Pythagorean' in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine.
- Authors
Coyer, Megan J.
- Abstract
The periodical press in the early nineteenth century was a site of dynamic exchange between men of science and men of letters, and Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine was a particularly rich site of expression for medical ideas. This chapter explores the symbiotic relationship between the Blackwoodian prose ction and the scientific and medical investigations of the Glaswegian surgeon and writer, Robert Macnish (1802–37), and in particular, his explorations of altered states of consciousness and phrenology. It is argued that his prose tales reveal the Blackwoodian ‘tale of terror' to be an experimental template for the medical theorist and budding phrenologist, revealing problematic sites for medical hermeneutics in early nineteenth-century Scotland.
- Subjects
EDINBURGH (Scotland); BLACKWOOD'S Edinburgh Magazine (Periodical); HISTORY of medical literature; PHRENOLOGY; MACNISH, Robert
- Publication
Clio Medica, 2014, Vol 94, Issue 1, p172
- ISSN
0045-7183
- Publication type
Article