TY - CHAP A1 - Arnaud, Sabine T1 - Tension and narrative : autobiographies of illness and therapeutic legitimacy in eighteenth-century French and English medical works T2 - Tension/Spannung / ed. by Christoph F. E. Holzhey. - Wien : Turia + Kant 2010. - (Cultural Inquiry ; 1) - ISBN 978-3-85132-616-1 N2 - This article discusses the function of tension in autobiographies written by eighteenth-century doctors George Cheyne, Francis Fuller, Claude Revillon, and the Viscount de Puysegur. It studies how their rhetorical strategies stir tensions in readers through the narration of their own periods of infirmity and search for a remedy. The descriptions of their recoveries offer resolution, legitimate their medical practices, and help diffuse their works. Through the staging of these reversals, the authors suggest a shift in the way the role of medical doctors was perceived as well as a fundamental change in their relationship to illness. KW - Autobiografie KW - Medizin KW - Geschichte 1700-1800 KW - Medizingeschichte KW - Spannung KW - Autobiography KW - Tension KW - History of medicine Y1 - 2019 UR - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/51404 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-514040 UR - https://www.ici-berlin.org/oa/ci-01/arnaud_tension-and-narrative.pdf SN - 978-3-85132-616-1 SP - 49 EP - 69 PB - Turia + Kant CY - Wien ER -