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• Publisher : Routledge
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• Release Date : 06 October 2015

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

• Publisher : Routledge
• File Size : 31,9 Mb
• Release Date : 28 July 2015

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

• Publisher : State University of New York Press
• File Size : 37,9 Mb
• Release Date : 01 February 2021

Medicine is most often understood through the metaphor of war. We encounter phrases such as "the war against the coronavirus," "the front lines of the Ebola crisis," "a new weapon

• Publisher : Routledge
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• Release Date : 27 July 2018

Few life occurrences shaped individual and collective identities within Victorian-era society as critically as witnessing or suffering from illness. The prevalence of illness narratives within late nineteenth-century popular culture was

• Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
• File Size : 39,8 Mb
• Release Date : 19 November 2009

This work offers a social and cultural history of Victorian medicine "from below," as experienced by ordinary practitioners and patients, often described in their own words. Health, Medicine, and Society

• Publisher : Springer Nature
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• Release Date : 31 August 2023

Science, Medicine, and Lineage in Popular Fiction of the Long Nineteenth Century explores the dialogue between popular literature and medical and scientific discourse in terms of how they represent the

• Publisher : Springer
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• Release Date : 26 October 2009

Reading Popular Culture in Victorian Print: Belgravia and Sensationalism is a comprehensive study of the whole run of the monthly periodical Belgravia under the direction of Mary Elizabeth Braddon. It

• Publisher : Springer Nature
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• Release Date : 10 August 2021

This book examines how the medical profession engaged with print and literary culture to shape its identities between the 1830s and 1910s in Britain and its empire. Moving away from

• Publisher : Springer
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• Release Date : 18 January 2019

This book investigates the relationship between the fascinating and misunderstood penny blood, early Victorian popular fiction for the working class, and Victorian anatomy. In 1832, the controversial Anatomy Act sanctioned the

• Publisher : Springer
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• Release Date : 16 August 2007

This book explores ideas of violent femininity across generic and disciplinary boundaries during the nineteenth century. It aims to highlight how medical, legal and literary narratives shared notions of the