This book presents ten new chapters on John Keats's medical imagination, beginning with his practical engagement with dissection and surgery, and the extraordin

This study explores the poet John Keats' manuscript medical Notebook from his time at Guy's Hospital (October 1815 - March 1816), reconstructing and recovering

The Medical Imagination traces the practice of using imagination and literature to craft, test, and implement theories of health in eighteenth- and nineteenth-c

For six years of his brief like, Keats studied medicine, first as an apprentice in Edmonton and then as a medical student at Guy's Hospital in London. His biogr

Using original research in scientific treatises, philosophical manuscripts, and political documents, this pioneering study describes the neglected era of revolu