Myth and (Mis)Information

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ISBN9781526166821
PublisherManchester University Press
Price (excl. tax)€128.21
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Price (incl. tax)€135.90
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This book discusses the various cultural forms and literary works by which information, myth and misinformation on medical practices and personages were spread during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and some of the reasons for this, from authorial self-interest to scientific ignorance. -- .