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Victorian medicine and popular culture

Title
Victorian medicine and popular culture / edited by Louise Penner and Tabitha Sparks.
Publication
London : Pickering & Chatto, 2015.

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Additional Authors
  • Penner, Louise
  • Sparks, Tabitha
Description
xiii, 182 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
This collection of essays explores the rise of scientific medicine and its impact on Victorian popular culture. Chapters include an examination of Dickens's involvement with hospital funding, concerns over milk purity and the theatrical portrayal of drug addiction, plus a whole section devoted to medicine in crime fiction.
Series Statement
Science and culture in the nineteenth century ; 28
Uniform Title
Science and culture in the nineteenth century ; no. 28.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction / Louise Penner and Tabitha Sparks -- 'Dr Locock and his Quack': Professionalizing medicine, textualizing identity in the 1840s / Kevin A. Morrison -- Dickens, metropolitan philanthropy and the London hospitals / Louise Penner -- Cleanliness and medicinal cheer: Harriet Martineau, the 'People of Bleaburn' and the sanitary work of Household Words / Meegan Kennedy -- Lacteal crises: Debates over milk purity in Victorian Britain / Jacob Steere-Williams -- 'The chemistry and botany of the kitchen': Scientific and domestic attempts to prevent food adulteration / Julie Kraft -- Medical bluebeards: The domestic threat of the poisoning doctor in the popular fiction of Ellen Wood / Cheryl Blake Price -- Male hysteria, sexual inversion and the sensational hero in Wilkie Collins's Armadale / Marc Milton Ducusin -- Ungentlemanly habits: The dramaturgy of drug addiction in Fin-de Siècle theatrical adaptations of the Sherlock Holmes stories and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde / Meredith Conti -- From vivisection to gender reassignment: Imagining the feminine in The Island of Doctor Moreau / Ellen J. Stockstill -- Illness as metaphor in the Victorian novel: Reading popular fiction against medical history / Tabitha Sparks.
Call Number
JFE 17-8010
ISBN
  • 9781848935693
  • 1848935692
OCLC
910229601
Title
Victorian medicine and popular culture / edited by Louise Penner and Tabitha Sparks.
Publisher
London : Pickering & Chatto, 2015.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Science and culture in the nineteenth century ; 28
Science and culture in the nineteenth century ; no. 28.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Penner, Louise, editor.
Sparks, Tabitha, editor.
Research Call Number
JFE 17-8010
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