Historical Medical Discourse : Corpus Linguistic Perspectives (Hardcover)

1. Corpora and the Study of Historical Medical Discourse ? Gavin Brookes, Niall Curry, Tony McEnery and Emma Putland; 2. From “I tried a purge” to “experimental intervention”: A Corpus-Based Discourse Study of Depersonalization as a Conceptual Strategy in Medical Writing from 1700 to the Present ? Georg Marko; 3. Patterns of Change in Late Modern English Microbiology Texts ? Katrin Menzel; 4. The Adaptation of Medical Knowledge in Late-17th- and Early 18th-century Manuscript Household Books ? Giulia Rovelli; 5. Gender-Based Evidence of Modalisation and Modulation Strategies in Nineteenth-Century Institution English Recipes ? Francisco J. Alonso-Almeida; 6. The Role of Personal Pronouns to Express Interpersonality in Women’s Recipe Collections ? Isabel de la Cruz-Cabanillas; 7. When people overload the/their stomach(s): Non-Verbal Plural Number Agreement and Generic Reference in Early and Late Modern Medical Discourse ? Karolina Rudnicka and Richard J. Whitt; 8. Sensory Language as a Gateway to Knowledge and Evidence in Early Modern English Midwifery Writing (1540?1800): On Verbs of Tactile Perception ? Richard J. Whitt; 9. Midwifery and Medical Writing in 18th-century British Reference Works: A Historical and Diachronic Corpus-Based Study ? Elisabetta Lonati; 10. Advertising a Proprietary Medicine: Daffy’s Elixir Salutis in Eighteenth-Century Newspaper Advertisements ? Carla Suhr; 11. Anti-Vaccination Discourse in Victorian England: Key Semantic Domains and Parallels with Present-Day Anti-Vaccination Arguments ? Elena Semino, Derek Gatherer, Tara Coltman-Patel, William Dance, Alice Deignan and Claire Hardaker.