02561namaa2200469uu 4500 doab69708 oapen 20260305123949.0 m o d cr|mn|---annan 210518s2018 xx |||||o ||| 0|eng d 978-3-319-73426-2 9783030087869 9783319734255 9783319734262 10.1007/978-3-319-73426-2 doi oapen oapen eng dc AFJ bicssc M bicssc Tweed, Hannah edt Medical Paratexts from Medieval to Modern Dissecting the Page Cham Springer Nature 2018 1 online resource (178 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine Free-to-read Unrestricted online access star This collection establishes the term 'medical paratexts' as a useful addition to medical humanities, book history, and literary studies research. As a relatively new field of study, little critical attention has been paid to medical paratexts. We understand paratext as the apparatus of graphic communication: title pages, prefaces, illustrations, marginalia, and publishing details which act as mediators between text and reader. Discussing the development of medical paratexts across scribal, print and digital media, the collection spans the medieval period to the twenty-first century. Dissecting the Page is structured in two thematic sections, underpinned by a shared examination of ideas of medical and lay readership and a history of reader response. The first section focuses on the production, reception, and use of medical texts. The second section analyses the role and significance of authority, access, and dissemination in discussions of health, medicine, and illness, for both lay and medical readerships. All rights reserved http://oapen.org/content/about-rights English Medicine and Nursing bicssc Other graphic or visual art forms bicssc medical paratexts; graphic communication; medieval; modern Scott, Diane edt Scott, Diane oth Tweed, Hannah oth DOAB Library. https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/69708 0 Free-to-read: DOAB: description of the publication 92954 92954