Dissecting the Page Tweed, Hannah edt Scott, Diane edt Scott, Diane oth Tweed, Hannah oth text xx Cham Springer Nature 2018 monographic eng 1 online resource (178 p.) 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. Free-to-read Unrestricted online access star All rights reserved http://oapen.org/content/about-rights English Medicine and Nursing Other graphic or visual art forms medical paratexts; graphic communication; medieval; modern 978-3-319-73426-2 9783030087869 9783319734255 9783319734262 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/69708 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/69708 Free-to-read All rights reserved oapen 210518 20260305123949.0 doab69708