{"id":3805,"date":"2015-02-23T11:07:59","date_gmt":"2015-02-23T11:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=3805"},"modified":"2015-02-23T11:07:59","modified_gmt":"2015-02-23T11:07:59","slug":"larry-duffy-launches-new-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2015\/02\/23\/larry-duffy-launches-new-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Larry Duffy launches new book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/french\/staff\/duffy.html\">Dr Larry Duffy<\/a> from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/french\/index.html\">Department of French<\/a> will launch his new book entitled <em>Flaubert, Zola, and the Incorporation of Disciplinary Knowledge<\/em> (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014) on Thursday 26 February at 5.15pm in CNW9.<\/p>\n<p>At the launch of the book, published as part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/researchcentres\/eurolit\/series\/index.html\">Palgrave Studies in Modern European Literature<\/a> series edited within the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/researchcentres\/eurolit\/index.html\">Centre for Modern European Literature<\/a>, Larry will present a research seminar based on literary and medical discourses of professional struggle and regulation, a key aspect of the book.<\/p>\n<p>This seminar will\u00a0discuss medical and literary narratives of professional conflicts surrounding disciplinary regulation of the medical and pharmaceutical professions in nineteenth-century France. These narratives \u2013 featuring health professionals of varying degrees of professionalism \u2013 claim persecution under a regulatory regime set up and presided over by Mathieu Orfila, France\u2019s leading toxicologist. Following discussion of the institutional context for medicine and pharmacy established by the time of the July Monarchy, the paper reads Flaubert\u2019s 1856 novel <em>Madame Bovary<\/em> alongside Charles-Nicolas Halmagrand\u2019s 1844 work\u00a0<em>Consid\u00e9rations m\u00e9dico-l\u00e9gales sur l\u2019avortement<\/em>\u00a0[<em>Forensic Considerations on Abortion<\/em>]. The latter text, superficially a medical treatise on a major forensic issue, is a polemical account of its author\u2019s arrest, trial and acquittal on abortion charges, and his subsequent blackballing for charlatanism. Without claiming a direct material link between the two texts, and aiming to transcend the problematic distinction between literary and non-literary discourse, the paper argues that the medical treatise is a document with many \u2018literary\u2019 features, and then draws upon striking similarities between its author\u2019s self-pitying and self-promoting rhetoric and that of Flaubert\u2019s pharmacist, Homais, to identify <em>Madame Bovary<\/em> as a documentary articulation of issues surrounding the disciplinary regulation of medicine and pharmacy.<\/p>\n<p>The book launch is open to all and will include complimentary wine. Full details of the event are available at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/events\/index.html?eid=C9CD3684-569A-41BB-BDC0-1A05467A66B1&amp;view_by=month&amp;date=20150219&amp;category=&amp;tag=\">www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/events<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Larry Duffy from the Department of French will launch his new book entitled Flaubert, Zola, and the Incorporation of Disciplinary Knowledge (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014) &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2015\/02\/23\/larry-duffy-launches-new-book\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5829,"featured_media":3706,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[135858,124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3805"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5829"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3805"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3820,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3805\/revisions\/3820"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}