Abstracts
Abstract
Expanding the concept of ownership to include distributorship allows consideration of a book route that diverges from circuits often associated with book culture studies. In particular, as this article outlines, organized publications exchanges—which temporarily own and distribute—present opportunities for understanding the spread of books from a different perspective. To demonstrate the research potential of exchanges, the article retraces the path of a single copy of a book over the twentieth century through a continental medical publications exchange, from its donation by the author to a county medical library outside Philadelphia, through its shipment to Toronto where it was housed in two medical libraries, and its brief return to Philadelphia in a personal collection in 2000. As the discussion suggests, this book, The Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania, its publication and its subsequent transnational peregrinations, spotlight the field of medicine with respect to contemporaneous trends in medical education, publishing, and library movements.
Résumé
Élargir le concept de propriété pour y inclure la diffusion permet de prendre en compte le parcours d’un livre en dehors des circuits que l’on associe souvent aux études en histoire du livre. Le présent article s’intéresse à la dissémination des livres selon une perspective assez peu courante, soit le rôle de réseaux (à la fois détenteurs provisoires et distributeurs) d’échanges de publications. Ces échanges ouvrent des avenues pour la recherche, comme en témoigne le parcours, au long du 20e siècle, d’un exemplaire d’un livre soumis à un échange continental de publications médicales. Amorcé par le don de l’ouvrage par son auteur à une bibliothèque de médecine d’un comté de la région de Philadelphie, le parcours se poursuit à Toronto, où le livre est expédié puis conservé dans deux bibliothèques de médecine, avant de retourner brièvement à Philadelphie, pour figurer cette fois dans la collection d’un particulier. Il ressort que l’ouvrage en question, The Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania, sa publication, puis ses pérégrinations transnationales, jettent un éclairage sur le domaine de la médecine en ce qu’ils révèlent diverses tendances ayant marqué au fil des ans l’enseignement de la médecine, l’édition médicale et les échanges entre bibliothèques disciplinaires.
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