Steve (University of Tokyo, Japan) Clark & Tristanne (University of Waterloo, Canada) Connolly 
Liberating Medicine, 1720 1835 [PDF ebook] 

During the 18th century medicine became an autonomous discipline and practice. Surgeons justified themselves as skilled practitioners and set themselves apart from the unspecialized, hack barber-surgeons of early modernity. This title presents 17 essays on the relationship between medicine and literature during the Enlightenment.