{"id":179,"date":"2016-01-27T12:30:47","date_gmt":"2016-01-27T12:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/litscimed\/?page_id=179"},"modified":"2016-02-09T22:21:31","modified_gmt":"2016-02-09T22:21:31","slug":"event-1-reading-list","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/litscimed\/event-1-reading-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Event 1: Reading List"},"content":{"rendered":"

Event 1<\/strong><\/p>\n

General Reading<\/strong><\/p>\n

Gillian Beer, \u2018Translation or Transformation? The Relations of Literature and Science\u2019, in Open Fields: Science in Cultural Encounter<\/em> (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996), pp. 173-95<\/p>\n

John Carey, \u2018Introduction\u2019, in The Faber Book of Science<\/em>, ed. by John Carey (London: Faber, 1995), pp. xiii-xxvii<\/p>\n

Gowan Dawson, \u2018Literature and Science Under the Microscope\u2019, Journal of Victorian Culture<\/em>, 11 (2006), 301-15<\/p>\n

Ralph O’Connor, \u2018Introduction: Science as Literature\u2019, in The Earth on Show: Fossils and the Poetics of Popular Science, 1802-1856<\/em> (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007), pp. 1-27<\/p>\n

Sharon Ruston, \u2018Introduction\u2019, \u2018Science and Literature\u2019, Essays and Studies<\/em>, 61 (2008), 1-12<\/p>\n

Plenary Session 1: \u2018Empiricism and the Novel\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

Michel De Montaigne, \u2018Of Cannibals\u2019 (1580)<\/p>\n

Primo Levi, \u2018Iron\u2019 (from The Periodic Table<\/em> (1975\/85))<\/p>\n

Original Dedication<\/a>, The Spectator<\/em>, 1 (1 March 1711)<\/p>\n

Thomas Sprat, History of the Royal Society<\/em><\/a> (1667)<\/p>\n

Jonathan Swift,\u00a0Gulliver\u2019s Travels<\/em>\u00a0(1727)<\/p>\n

Jonathan Swift, The Battle of the Books <\/em>(1704)<\/p>\n

Session 1: Gladstone Library Collection<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ruth Clayton Windscheffel,\u00a0Gladstone Reading<\/em> (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2008)<\/p>\n

Ruth Clayton Windscheffel, \u2018W. E. Gladstone: An Annotation Key\u2019, Notes and Queries<\/em>, 246 (new series 48), n. 2 (June 2001), 140-43<\/p>\n

W. E. Gladstone,\u00a0‘On Books and the Housing of Them’<\/a>, Nineteenth Century<\/em>, 27 (March 1890), 384-96<\/p>\n

Session 2: Mono-, Inter-, Multi- Disciplinarity<\/strong><\/p>\n

Stefan Collini, \u2018Introduction\u2019, in C. P. Snow, The Two Cultures<\/em> (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008), pp. vii-lxxi<\/p>\n

Joe Moran, \u2018Science, Space and Nature\u2019, in Interdisciplinarity<\/em> (New Critical Idiom) (London: Routledge, 2002), pp. 148-81<\/p>\n

Session 4: Medical Discoveries and Online Resources\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Outline<\/u><\/p>\n

New theories, techniques, and drugs are a fundamental strand of the history of medicine and provide fertile ground for researching a multiplicity of themes and ideas. But we have to take great care not to interpret past discoveries in present-centred terms. Medical innovations are shaped by specific historical and cultural conditions, and critical analysis of the wider context surrounding their discovery is a key part of historical research. The aim of this session is to introduce students to the pleasures and pitfalls of researching medical discoveries through two examples: William Harvey and the circulation of the blood (1643) and the introduction of anaesthesia (late 1840s). Additionally we will explore the potential of online resources for research in this area.<\/p>\n

Content<\/u><\/p>\n

It will be helpful if you have prepared in advance for the session as outlined below.<\/p>\n

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  1. Read William Harvey, On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals<\/em>: Dedications, Letter to Prince Charles, Introduction, and Chapters 8 and 9. This material can be downloaded from Bartleby.com<\/a>\u00a0or from\u00a0The Modern History Source Book<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Use the following questions to structure your reading:<\/p>\n