- Tytuł:
- Un palliatif en vers. L’Épître au docteur Alfred G*** sur l’espérance, considérée dans l’exercice de la médecine (1811) de Jean-Marie Caillau (1765-1820)
- Autorzy:
- Prot, Bénédicte
- Powiązania:
- https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/2095788.pdf
- Data publikacji:
- 2022-04-04
- Wydawca:
- Uniwersytet Gdański. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Gdańskiego
- Tematy:
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eloquence
doctor-poet
scientific poetry
medical case writing
early 19th century
éloquence
poète - médecin
poésie scientifique
écriture dcas médical
XVIIIe -XIXe siècles - Opis:
- In 1811, the poetic academy of Toulouse awarded an epistle about hope in medical practice, by Jean-Marie Caillau, a now unknown physician who combined medicine and writing. This article provides contextualizing and close reading. It presents Caillau’s works and reputation, and highlights how he defined himself as a doctor-writer. Then it focuses on the didactic epistle, in which hope is regarded as a moral palliative, or a soothing and comforting illusion that the empathetic clinician prescribes to incurable, moribund and suffering people. The study of the text reveals the significant use of the peritext, the strong connection between medical discourse and poetical devices, and the praise of an eloquent physician at the patient’s bedside. By correlating hope and eloquence, Caillau embodies and promotes the dual figure of the doctorpoet. This article thus explores the fruitful and sometimes challenging interplay between medicine and poetry during the early 19th century.
- Źródło:
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Cahiers ERTA; 2022, 29; 10-43
2300-4681 - Pojawia się w:
- Cahiers ERTA
- Dostawca treści:
- Biblioteka Nauki
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