Victorian medicine and popular culture

Format:

Online Resource

Language:

English

Imprint:

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : University of Pittsburgh Press (Bibliovault) : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016

Subject:

Medicine - Great Britain - History - 19th century
Public health - Great Britain - History - 19th century
Popular culture - Great Britain - History - 19th century
Medicine in literature
HEALTH & FITNESS - Holism
HEALTH & FITNESS - Reference
MEDICAL - Alternative Medicine
MEDICAL - Atlases
MEDICAL - Essays
MEDICAL - Family & General Practice
MEDICAL - Holistic Medicine
MEDICAL - Osteopathy
Medicine
Popular culture
Public health
Great Britain
History of Medicine
Public Health - history
Medicine in Literature
History, 19th Century
Culture
United Kingdom

Contributor:

Penner, Louise, editor
Sparks, Tabitha, editor

ISBN:

9780822981893 and 0822981890

Series:

Science and culture in the nineteenth century

Description:

1 online resource

Bibliographic 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

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

Call Number:

R487 .V53 2016eb