Change and continuity in early modern medicine (1500–1700)

Mikkeli, Heikki; Marttila, Ville

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“…In addition, converging phenomena such as exploration, periodic outbreaks of the plague and the Reformation led to a gradual distrust in the purported infallibility of classical models of medicine and learning. Indeed, the Royal Society was founded in 1660 (chartered 1662) to pursue and promote the newer, more empirically based mode of discovery promoted by natural philosophers such as Francis Bacon and Robert Boyle (good historical overviews are provided in Siraisi 1990;Grafton, Shelford & Siraisi 1992;Shapin 1996;Wear 2000;French 2003;Cook 2006;Lindemann 2010;Mikkeli & Marttila 2010).…”

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Epistemic space and key concepts in early and late modern medical discourse: an exploration of two genres

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2023

English Language and Linguistics

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This article provides a corpus-driven overview of the ‘epistemic space’ surrounding the use of two lockwords of Early and Late Modern English writings on midwifery and childbirth, child and uterus. Rather than searching for epistemic stance markers themselves, this study employs the ‘bottom-up’ approach by examining the propositions containing these lockwords, and then seeing what particular epistemic meanings are signalled by the surrounding discourse context. Both treatises and periodicals representative of medical writing from the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries are examined, thus allowing any diachronic trends characteristic of a period that witnessed much change in midwifery practices, and medicine more broadly, to be uncovered. Data are drawn from the Early Modern English Medical Texts (EMEMT) and Late Modern English Medical Texts (LMEMT) corpora.

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Epistemic space and key concepts in early and late modern medical discourse: an exploration of two genres

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2023

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“…Cook 2006;Mikkeli and Marttila 2010). How these developments influenced medical English is perhaps easiest to observe at the level of vocabulary when new terms are introduced and old ones become obsolete.…”

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So ADJ/ADV that clause patterns in Early Modern English medical writing

Hiltunen

2012

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This paper investigates how an intensifying phraseological pattern involving the adverb so followed by a delayed declarative content clause is used in medical English in the early modern period (1500-1700). So may occur with adjectival, nominal or adverbial heads, and the pattern is used for indicating degree, extent or manner. The analysis employs the recently published Early Modern English Medical Texts corpus to show (i) that the pattern was in use throughout the entire period, (ii) that it tends to be more frequently used in learned rather than popular texts, and (iii) that it is typically used for giving descriptions and less often in instructions.

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Studies in Corpus Linguistics

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Change and continuity in early modern medicine (1500–1700)

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Epistemic space and key concepts in early and late modern medical discourse: an exploration of two genres

Epistemic space and key concepts in early and late modern medical discourse: an exploration of two genres

So ADJ/ADV that clause patterns in Early Modern English medical writing

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