Victorian Medicine and Popular Culture

Description:

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.

subjects: Medicine, great britain,  Public health, great britain,  Popular culture, great britain,  Medicine in literature,  Medicine,  History,  Public health,  Popular culture,  History of Medicine,  Culture,  Englisch,  Literatur,  Pop-Kultur,  Medizin,  Medicine / Great Britain / History / 19th century,  Popular culture / Great Britain / History / 19th century,  Public Health / History,  Public health / Great Britain / History / 19th century,  History, 19th Century