Megan Coyer is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Glasgow and directs Glasgow’s Medical Humanities Research Centre. She held a Wellcome Trust Research Fellowship in Medical Humanities from 2012-2016. She received her PhD in Scottish Literature from the University of Glasgow in 2010, and her first degree is a B.S. in Neuroscience from Lafayette College (Easton, PA USA).

Coyer provides very important new observations and interpretations that substantially broaden the understanding of the mutually constitutive interrelation between medicine and literature and that are by no means valid only for　Blackwood’s early-nineteenth-century Edinburgh.

• AbbreviationsIntroduction: Medicine and Blackwoodian Romanticism 1. Medical Discourse and Ideology in the Edinburgh Review2. The Tale of Terror and the ‘Medico-Popular’3. ‘Delta’: The Construction of a Nineteenth-Century Literary Surgeon 4. Professionalisation and the Case of Samuel Warren’s Passages from the Diary of a Late Physician5. The Rise of Public Health in the Popular Periodical Press: The Political Medicine of W. P. Alison, Robert Gooch, and Robert FergusonCoda: Medical Humanism and Blackwood’s Magazine at the Fin de SiècleBibliography

Megan Coyer is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Glasgow and directs Glasgow’s Medical Humanities Research Centre. She held a Wellcome Trust Research Fellowship in Medical Humanities from 2012-2016. She received her PhD in Scottish Literature from the University of Glasgow in 2010, and her first degree is a B.S. in Neuroscience from Lafayette College (Easton, PA USA).

Coyer provides very important new observations and interpretations that substantially broaden the understanding of the mutually constitutive interrelation between medicine and literature and that are by no means valid only for　Blackwood’s early-nineteenth-century Edinburgh.

• AbbreviationsIntroduction: Medicine and Blackwoodian Romanticism 1. Medical Discourse and Ideology in the Edinburgh Review2. The Tale of Terror and the ‘Medico-Popular’3. ‘Delta’: The Construction of a Nineteenth-Century Literary Surgeon 4. Professionalisation and the Case of Samuel Warren’s Passages from the Diary of a Late Physician5. The Rise of Public Health in the Popular Periodical Press: The Political Medicine of W. P. Alison, Robert Gooch, and Robert FergusonCoda: Medical Humanism and Blackwood’s Magazine at the Fin de SiècleBibliography

Megan Coyer is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Glasgow and directs Glasgow’s Medical Humanities Research Centre. She held a Wellcome Trust Research Fellowship in Medical Humanities from 2012-2016. She received her PhD in Scottish Literature from the University of Glasgow in 2010, and her first degree is a B.S. in Neuroscience from Lafayette College (Easton, PA USA).

Coyer provides very important new observations and interpretations that substantially broaden the understanding of the mutually constitutive interrelation between medicine and literature and that are by no means valid only for　Blackwood’s early-nineteenth-century Edinburgh.

• AbbreviationsIntroduction: Medicine and Blackwoodian Romanticism 1. Medical Discourse and Ideology in the Edinburgh Review2. The Tale of Terror and the ‘Medico-Popular’3. ‘Delta’: The Construction of a Nineteenth-Century Literary Surgeon 4. Professionalisation and the Case of Samuel Warren’s Passages from the Diary of a Late Physician5. The Rise of Public Health in the Popular Periodical Press: The Political Medicine of W. P. Alison, Robert Gooch, and Robert FergusonCoda: Medical Humanism and Blackwood’s Magazine at the Fin de SiècleBibliography