Samuel Johnson in the Medical World: The Doctor and the Patient

by John Wiltshire

Book Overview

Samuel Johnson has become known to posterity in two capacities: through his own works as the great literary essayist of the eighteenth century, and through Boswell's Life, as a man--notoriously a medical patient with a string of physical and psychological ailments. John Wiltshire brings the two together in this original study of Johnson the writer as doctor and patient. The subject of modern medical historians' case studies, Johnson also cultivated...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521022282
• ISBN13: 9780521022286
• Release Date: December 2005
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"