03772nam 2200757 450 991081327250332120230120084833.01-315-65365-60-8229-8189-01-317-31672-X1-78144-797-7(CKB)2670000000612400(EBL)2035602(SSID)ssj0001574041(PQKBManifestationID)16227315(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001574041(PQKBWorkID)14841344(PQKB)10916275(Au-PeEL)EBL4643576(CaPaEBR)ebr11249178(CaONFJC)MIL776612(OCoLC)957128011(Au-PeEL)EBL4015350(CaPaEBR)ebr11122178(OCoLC)918622757(MiAaPQ)EBC4643576(MiAaPQ)EBC2035602(MiAaPQ)EBC2127310(MiAaPQ)EBC4015350(PPN)253612659(EXLCZ)99267000000061240020160907h20162016 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtccrVictorian medicine and popular culture /edited by Louise Penner and Tabitha SparksPittsburgh, Pennsylvania :University of Pittsburgh Press,2016.©20161 online resource (198 p.)Science and Culture in the Nineteenth CenturyIncludes index.1-78144-796-9 1-84893-569-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.Acknowledgements; List of Contributors; List of Figures; Introduction - Louis Penner and Tabitha Sparks; 1 'Dr Locock and his Quack': Professionalizing Medicine, Textualising Identity in the 1840's - Kevin A. Morrison; 2 Dickens, Metropolitan Philanthropy and the London Hospitals - Louise Penner; 3 Cleanliness and Medical Cheer: Harriet Martineau, the 'People of Bleaburn' and the Sanitary Work of Household Words; 4 Lacteal Crises: Debates Over Milk Purity in Victorian Britain; 5 'The Chemistry and Botany of the Kitchen': Scientific and Domestic Attempts to Prevent Food Adulteration6 Medical Bluebeards: The Domestic Threat of the Poisoning Doctor in the Popular Fiction of Ellen Wood 7 Male Hysteria, Sexual Inversion and the Sensational Hero in Wilkie Collins's Armadale; 8 Ungentlemanly Habits: The Dramaturgy of Drug Addiction in Fin-de-siècle Theatrical Adaptations of the Sherlock Holmes Stories and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde; 9 From Vivisection to Gender Reassignment: Imagining the Feminine in The Island of Doctor Moreau; 10 Illness as Metaphor in the Victorian Novel: Reading Popular Fiction Against Medical History; Notes; IndexThis 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.Science and culture in the nineteenth century.MedicineGreat BritainHistory19th centuryPopular cultureGreat BritainHistory19th centuryPublic healthGreat BritainHistory19th centuryMedicineHistoryPopular cultureHistoryPublic healthHistory610.94109034Penner LouiseSparks TabithaMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910813272503321Victorian medicine and popular culture3993628UNINA