Jessica M. E. Kirwan Cosmopolitanism and tenacity were required attributes of the first British women doctors.
Author: Jessica M. E. Kirwan
I am the Assistant Director of Research for UF Health Radiation Oncology. I am also a PhD student in the Department of English at the University of Florida. My research focuses on popular medical literature and literature about medicine in the long nineteenth century.
On Illness, Geography, and Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal in the Life and Death of Emily Shore
By Jessica M. E. Kirwan The Journal of Emily Shore chronicles nine years in the life of a remarkably prolific and erudite young naturalist who died of tuberculosis at 19 years old. Published in 1891 by Shore’s sisters more than 50 years after Emily’s death, it includes 350 pages excerpted from a set…
Emperor Frederick’s Larynx and the Professionalization of Medicine in Late Nineteenth-Century Europe
Jessica M. E. Kirwan In June of 1888, German Emperor and King of Prussia, Frederick III, died of a laryngeal tumor at the age of 56, only 99 days into his reign. His death is considered one of the greatest malpractice cases in history, and, while most discussions center around the illness itself, here I…
