Chapter 1. Corpora, pragmatics, and historical medical discourse

Irma Taavitsainen, Turo Hiltunen, Jeremy J. Smith and Carla Suhr (eds.), Genre in English medical writing, 1500–1820: Sociocultural contexts of production and use (Studies in English Language). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. xviii + 322. ISBN 9781009108683.

“…Regardless, the breadth of topics and methodologies presented in this volume is impressive, and taken together with Hiltunen & Taavitsainen (2022), they provide a state-of-the-art piece of research into historical medical discourse.…”