Medical Paratexts from Medieval to Modern: Dissecting the Page

1. Foreword: Jeremy J. Smith.- 2.Authority, Authenticity and Representation: An Introduction to Medical Paratexts: Hannah C. Tweed and Diane G. Scott.- 3. '[P]rophane fidlers': Medical Paratexts and Indecent Readers in Early Modern England: Harry Newman.- 4. Touching Twins in the Texts and Medical Paratexts of Seventeenth-Century Midwifery Books: Louise Powell.- 5. Graphic Surgical Practice in the Handbills of Seventeenth-Century London Irregulars: Roberta Mullini.- 6. Profit and Paratexts; the Economics of Pharmaceutical Packaging in the Long Nineteenth Century: Laura Mainwaring.- 7. Remedies for Despair: Considering Mental Health in Late Medieval England: Natalie Calder.- 8. The Medical Paratexts as a Voice in the Patient's Chamber: Speech and Print in Physick for the Poor (1657): Elspeth Jajdelska.- 9. Archives, Paratext and Life Writing in the First World War: Hannah C. Tweed.- 10. 'Nonsense Rides Piggyback on Sensible Things': The Past, Present, and Future of Graphology: Deborah Ellen Thorpe.- 11. Medical Marginalia in the early printed books of University of Glasgow Library: Robert MacLean.