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
Acknowledgements | |
Professionalizing Medicine | |
Dickens Metropolitan Philanthropy and the London Hospitals | |
Harriet Martineau the ªPeople | |
Debates over Milk Purity in Victorian Britain | |
Scientific | |
The Domestic Threat of the Poisoning | |
Male Hysteria Sexual Inversion and the Sensational Hero | |
The Dramaturgy of Drug Addiction | |
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