Jane Barker, Medical Discourse, and the Origins of the Novel

Meek, Heather

doi:10.1017/9781108355476.004

Literature and Medicine 2021

DOI: 10.1017/9781108355476.004

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Jane Barker, Medical Discourse, and the Origins of the Novel

Heather Meek¹

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“…physician Thomas Willis, 4 she developed an in-depth understanding of the human body and soon adopted the title of 'doctor' in recognition of the skills she had acquired, creating a private practice through which she saw and treated patients and advertised remedies of her own making, including 'Dr. Barkers [sic] Famous Gout Plaister which infallibly takes away the pain in Twelve Hours time, with the Paroxysm of the Distemper, and in time may effect a perfect Cure'.…”

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‘Make the Medick Art my Whole Concern’: Poetry as Women's Literary Medical Practice

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2023

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The act of writing has long been acknowledged as integral to eighteenthcentury medical practice, with medical practitioners relying on their ability to communicate via the written word for professional success. Partly as a result of their literary activities, the achievements of male physicians, surgeons, and apothecaries are frequently well-documented, yet the same cannot be said of women engaging in medical work. This essay argues that eighteenth-century women's medical practice extended into their creative writing, with numerous women writers utilising poetry as a central form of authoritative expression on matters of health. Verse offered opportunities to scrutinise, advise on, and influence medical knowledge and practice. Print and manuscript works by authors Jane Barker (1652-1732), Martha Hodges (fl.1675-1725), and Susanna Blamire (1747-94), serve a variety of functions, including arguing for women's medical education, reimagining the workings of the body, and advocating holistic forms of practice that unite physical and emotional forms of care.

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‘Make the Medick Art my Whole Concern’: Poetry as Women's Literary Medical Practice

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