Shuttleton, D.E. (2014) An account of...William Cullen: John Thomson and the making of a medical biography. In: Coyer, M. J. and Shuttleton, D. E. (eds.) Scottish Medicine and Literary Culture, 1726-1832. Series: Clio medica (94). Rodopi, pp. 240-266. ISBN 9789401211734 (doi: 10.1163/9789401211734_012)
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Abstract
John Thomson’s An Account of the Life, Lectures and Writings of William Cullen (1832; 1859) remains a primary source for the career of the most influential academic physician in eighteenth-century Scotland and is also a significant work of medical history. But this multi-authored text, begun around 1810 by the academic surgeon, John Thomson, but only completed in 1859 by Dr David Craigie, has its own complex history. This chapter addresses what this history can reveal about the development of medical biography as a literary genre. It argues that the Account is a hybrid work shaped by a complex array of practical, domestic, intellectual, and professional pressures, as Thomson, in seeking to bolster his own career, was caught between the demands of Cullen’s children for a traditional “Life” and his own more theoretical and socio-cultural interests.
| Item Type: | Book Sections |
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| Additional Information: | ISBN: 9789042038912 (hardback). |
| Status: | Published |
| Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: | Shuttleton, Dr David |
| Authors: | Shuttleton, D.E. |
| College/School: | College of Arts & Humanities > School of Critical Studies > English Literature |
| Publisher: | Rodopi |
| ISBN: | 9789401211734 |
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