Victorian Medicine and Popular Culture (Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century) - Hardcover

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ISBN 10: 0822945029 ISBN 13: 9780822945024

Verlag: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015

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"Advertisements for Dr. Locock's Pulmonic Wafers, investigations of adulterated milk, doctor-poisoners, male hysterics: these are just some of the little-known but fascinating topics broached in Victorian Medicine and Popular Culture. Particularly strong in contributions showing the connections between medical controversies, figures, or topoi and popular fiction (Martineau, Collins, Conan Doyle, Ellen Wood, H. G. Wells), this volume of essays should be of interest to Victorianists and historians of medicine alike." --Lawrence Rothfield, University of Chicago "This is an outstanding collection: deeply researched, clearly written essays that talk to each other on such diverse aspects of Victorian public response to medicine as Thomas Wakley's battle against fraudulent patent medicine ads, Dickens's campaigns for hospitals, periodical articles on food adulteration, sanitation and home health management, poisoning doctors in novels, the new 'science' of sexology, drug addiction, degeneration, and a culminating essay on the importance of reading illness as metaphor in Victorian literature." --Mary Wilson Carpenter, Queen's University, Canada

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This collection of essays explores the rise of scientific medicine and its impact on Victorian popular culture. Chapters include an examination of Charles Dickens's involvement with hospital funding, concerns over milk purity and the theatrical portrayal of drug addiction, plus a whole section devoted to the representation of medicine in crime fiction. This is an interdisciplinary study involving public health, cultural studies, the history of medicine, literature and the theatre, providing new insights into Victorian culture and society

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• Verlag: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0822945029
• ISBN 13: 9780822945024
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 200
• Herausgeber: Penner Louise, Sparks Tabitha