Victorian Medicine and Popular CultureThis 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. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Professionalizing Medicine Textualizing Identity in the 1840s | 9 |
2 Dickens Metropolitan Philanthropy and the London Hospitals | 27 |
Harriet Martineau the People of Bleaburn and the Sanitary Work of Household Words | 41 |
Debates over Milk Purity in Victorian Britain | 53 |
Scientific and Domestic Attempts to Prevent Food Adulteration | 67 |
The Domestic Threat of the Poisoning Doctor in the Popular Fiction of Ellen Wood | 81 |
7 Male Hysteria Sexual Inversion and the Sensational Hero in Wilkie Collinss Armadale | 95 |
The Dramaturgy of Drug Addiction in FindeSiècle Theatrical Adaptations of the Sherlock Holmes Stories and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr ... | 109 |
Imagining the Feminine in The Island of Doctor Moreau | 125 |
Reading Popular Fiction against Medical History | 137 |
Notes | 147 |
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