Victorian Medicine and Popular Culture

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Victorian Medicine and Popular Culture

Author	: Louise Penner
File Size	: 49,5 Mb
Publisher	: Routledge
Language	: English
Release Date	: 06 October 2015
ISBN	: 9781317316718
Pages	: 290 pages

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Victorian Medicine and Popular Culture by Louise Penner Book PDF 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.

Victorian Medicine and Popular Culture by Louise Penner

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