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Diagnosing History: Medicine in Television Period Drama

Diagnosing History: Medicine in Television Period Drama

Byrne, Katherine
Taddeo, Julie Anne
Leggott, James

Hardcover

Medical ReferenceTelevision

ISBN10: 1526163284
ISBN13: 9781526163288
Publisher: Manchester Univ Pr
Published: Mar 25 2022
Pages: 304
Weight: 1.32
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
This timely collection examines representations of medicine and medical practices in international period drama television. A preoccupation with medical plots and settings can be found across a range of important historical series, including Outlander, Poldark, The Knick, Call the Midwife, La Peste and A Place to Call Home. Such shows offer a critique of medical history while demonstrating how contemporary viewers access and understand the past. Topics covered in this collection include the innovations and horrors of surgery; the intersection of gender, class, race and medicine on the American frontier; psychiatry and the trauma of war; and the connections between past and present pandemics. Featuring original chapters on period television from the UK, the US, Spain and Australia, Diagnosing history offers an accessible, global and multidisciplinary contribution to both televisual and medical history.

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