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Victorian Medicine and Popular Culture

Victorian Medicine and Popular Culture

Paperback

Series: Sci & Culture in the Nineteenth Century, Book 87

Medical ReferenceSports General

ISBN10: 0822966433
ISBN13: 9780822966432
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: Dec 1 2020
Pages: 196
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.70 Depth: 8.70
Language: English
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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