Table des matières
0. Socio-cultural background and general aims of the study
- 0.1. Introducing and contextualising source material
- 0.1.1. Universal dictionaries of arts and sciences and specialised medical dictionaries
- 0.1.2. Handbooks and compendia: the expansion of reference works
- 0.2. Methodology
- 0.2.1. Lexicographic approach: systematising and defining medical contents
- 0.2.2. Textual approach: rhetorical context and linguistic features
- 0.3. Definition of some key terms
- 0.4. General overview of the volume
- 0.4.1. Chapter 1. Framing medical discourse in universal dictionaries of arts and sciences
- 0.4.2. Chapter 2. Framing medical discourse in specialised dictionaries
- 0.4.3. Chapter 3. Framing medical discourse in eighteenth-century handbooks
- 0.4.4. Chapter 4. Case study: fever in dictionaries and handbooks
- 0.4.5. Chapter 5. Conclusions
3. Framing medical discourse in eighteenth-century handbooks
- 3.1 General introduction: explanatory prefaces and contents
- 3.2. Medical experience and medical practice in eighteenth-century handbooks
- 3.2.1. Denominating, defining and categorising diseases: basic patterns and discursive issues (Group A: glossing, equivalence, etymology)
- 3.2.2. Defining terms and expanding knowledge: symptomography and elaborate descriptions (Group B)
- 3.3. Chapter summary
4. Case study: fever in dictionaries and handbooks
- 4.1. Establishing a unit of meaning: glossing, defining, and expanding Fever in the eb, rcy, md, and nmd
- 4.2. Expanding medical contents s.v. Fever in the EB, RCY, MD, and NMD
- 4.2.1. Symptomography: listing, clustering, and recording symptoms
- 4.2.2. Systematising fever(s)
- 4.3. Framing Fever in eighteenth-century handbooks: basic patterns, elaborate descriptions, and discursive issues
- 4.3.1. Lexical definition: categorisation and shared knowledge
- 4.3.2. Symptomography: listing and clustering
- 4.3.3. Symptomography: process and discourse markers
- 4.4. Chapter summary