Genre in English Medical Writing, 1500–1820
Sociocultural Contexts of Production and Use

Editors

Irma Taavitsainen, University of Helsinki
Irma Taavitsainen is Professor Emerita of English Philology at the University of Helsinki. Her research focuses on historical pragmatics, corpus linguistics, genre and register variation and the evolution of scientific thought styles in medical writing.

Turo Hiltunen, University of Helsinki
Jeremy Smith is Professor Emeritus of English philology at Glasgow University, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His interests include English historical linguistics, the history of Scots, and book history. Recent publications include Transforming Early English (2020).

Jeremy J. Smith, University of Glasgow
Carla Suhr is University Lecturer in English Philology at the University of Helsinki. Her research focuses on early modern English medical writing and early news discourse. She is a co-compiler of the early and late modern components of the Corpus of Early English Medical Writing (2010, 2019).

Carla Suhr, University of Helsinki
Turo Hiltunen is University Lecturer in English at the University of Helsinki, Finland. He has authored several studies on corpus pragmatics, corpus compilation, phraseology, and the language of science and medicine.

Contributors

Irma Taavitsainen, Jeremy J. Smith, Turo Hiltunen, Carla Suhr, Peter Murray Jones, Lori Jones, Chiara Benati, Alpo Honkapohja, Alberto Tanturri, Roderick McConchie, Isabel de la Cruz-Cabanillas, Maura Ratia, Agnes Kuna, Martti Mäkinen, Anna Ilona Rajala, Timo Uotinen