Victorian Medicine and Popular Culture
(Part of the Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century Series)
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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,...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0822966433
ISBN13:9780822966432
Release Date:December 2020
Publisher:University of Pittsburgh Press
Length:200 Pages
Weight:0.60 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 5.7" x 8.7"
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