Medical Fictions and Healing Words: The Narratives of Eighteenth-Century Medical Men

这篇论文关注于围绕18世纪医学专业人士形成的叙事，以及他们创造的叙事，以探索医学故事讲述的目的。韦恩·怀尔德等学者的研究主要集中在医生与文学之间的关系上，致力于探索18世纪作家如何在其小说作品中使用当时的医学话语和实践者。这经常导致对围绕医疗贸易的怀疑的大量批判性关注，荒野国家渗透到18世纪的所有几十年，并在“无情的”文学讽刺中得到表达(Wild：2006，p.19)。然而，小说如何反过来影响医学话语的产生还需要进一步的研究。为了弥补在医学写作方面的学术空白，本论文将探索这样一个概念，即小说的手段可以在医学话语和实践中找到，正如克拉克·劳勒所说的那样，揭示了一个“文化反馈的过程”(Laweller：2007，p.16)。这将有助于突出医生是如何摆脱猜疑和讽刺的，利用18世纪文学的影响来帮助巩固医疗职业。

This thesis focuses on the narratives that formed around eighteenth-century medical professionals, and in turn those they created, to explore the purposes of medical story telling. Scholars such as Wayne Wild have centered their work on the relationship between doctors and literature, directing much attention towards exploring how eighteenth-century writers make use of the medical discourses and practitioners of the moment in their works of fiction. This has often resulted in a large critical focus on the suspicion that surrounded the medical trade, which Wild states permeated all decades of the eighteenth century and found expression in 'merciless' literary satire (Wild: 2006, p.19). However, the way in which fiction in turn influences the production of medical discourse demands further research. In seeking to remedy the gap in scholarship on medical writing, this thesis will explore the concept that the devices of fiction can be found within medical discourse and practice, in a way that Clark Lawlor states reveals a 'process of cultural feedback' (Lawlor: 2007, p.16). This will serve to highlight how doctors looked to move past the suspicion and satire, using the influence of eighteenth-century literature to aid the consolidation of the medical profession.