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Louise Penner, Louise (EDT)/ Sparks Penner, Louise Penner, Tabitha Sparks

Victorian Medicine and Popular Culture

English · Hardback

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Klappentext 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.

Product details

Authors	Louise Penner, Louise (EDT)/ Sparks Penner
Assisted by	Louise Penner (Editor), Tabitha Sparks (Editor)
Publisher	ASHGATE PUB CO

Languages	English
Product format	Hardback
Released	15.06.2015

EAN	9781848935693
ISBN	978-1-84893-569-3
No. of pages	256
Series	Science & Culture in the Nineteenth Century Sci & Culture in the Nineteent
Subject	Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General

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