Bleak Health - The medical history of Charles Dickens and his family

Dickens had a life-long obsession with health and medicine. This landmark new book documents this more fully than ever. It is valuable, too, for studies of public health changes in the 19th-century. / Bleak Health - by a medically-trained literary historian - offers an in-depth study of Dickens's life and letters from a medical viewpoint, throwing new light on his world; his medical history; that of his family, and his obsessions.

About the author

Dr. Nicholas Cambridge is an Honorary Research Fellow in Humanities at the University of Buckingham. In 2017 he was a Visiting Scholar in Medical Humanities at Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia. He worked for 25 years as a general medical practitioner in Surrey, England, when he also obtained an MD degree in Medical History from the University of London. He is a well known lecturer on Dickens, and the author of several papers on Dickens in relation to medicine.

Product details

• Authors: Nicholas Cambridge
• Publisher: Edward Everett Root
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2022
• EAN: 9781913087982
• ISBN: 978-1-913087-98-2
• No. of pages: 220
• Dimensions: 145 mm x 222 mm x 16 mm
• Weight: 414 g
• Series: Writers and Their Contexts
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies