The selected poems of Joanna Baillie, 1762-1851

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The selected poems of Joanna Baillie, 1762-1851

edited by Jennifer Breen

Manchester University Press, 1999

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Bibliography: p. [199]-204

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This book delves into medico-legal history, travelling back in time to explore English law's fascinating and often acrimonious relationship with healing and healers. Challenging assumptions that medical law is a recent development, Law and healing traces the regulation of healers from the Church's dominance to legal battles fought among medical practitioners. As well as considering the history of the regulation of healers, this book addresses moral issues such as abortion, bodily sovereignty, and the use of cadavers in research. It highlights how fundamental legal and ethical questions continue to resurface, for example, from controversy in the Renaissance over human dissection to modern-day debates about organ donation. Law and healing provides a colourful but critical account of the longstanding - and often fraught - relationship between two fundamental pillars of human society. -- .

Table of Contents

  • A winter day
  • a summer day
  • a reverie
  • a disappointment
  • a lamentation
  • an address to the muses
  • the storm-beat maid
  • an address to the night - a fearful mind
  • an address to the night - a discontented mind
  • an address to the night - a sorrowful mind
  • an address to the night - a joyful mind
  • to fear
  • a mother to her waking infant
  • a child to his sick grandfather
  • the kitten
  • song written for a Welsh air - "O welcome bat and owlet grey"
  • the black cock.

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  • NCID
    BA44328026
  • ISBN
    • 0719054745
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Manchester
  • Pages/Volumes
    vi, 206 p.
  • Size
    23 cm
  • Classification
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