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Doctoring the novel : medicine and quackery from Shelley to Doyle, Sylvia A. Pamboukian
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- Summary
- If nineteenth-century Britain witnessed the rise of medical professionalism, it also witnessed rampant quackery. It is tempting to categorize historical practices as either orthodox or quack, but what did these terms really signify in medical and public circles at the time? How did they develop and evolve? What do they tell us about actual medical practices? Doctoring the Novel explores the ways in which language constructs and stabilizes these slippery terms by examining medical quackery and orthodoxy in works such as Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Charles Dickens's Bleak House and Little Do
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xiv, 207 pages)
- Contents
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- Introduction: False professions: defining orthodoxy and quackery
- Orthodoxy or quackery? anatomy in Frankenstein
- Doctoring in Little Dorrit and Bleak House
- Legerdemain and the physician in Charlotte Bronte's Villette
- Poisons and the poisonous in Wilkie Collins's Armadale
- The quackery of Arthur Conan Doyle
- Conclusion: The in-laws: orthodoxy and quackery in Vernon Galbray
- Isbn
- 9780821444061
- Label
- Doctoring the novel : medicine and quackery from Shelley to Doyle
- Title
- Doctoring the novel
- Title remainder
- medicine and quackery from Shelley to Doyle
- Statement of responsibility
- Sylvia A. Pamboukian
- Subject
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- 1800-1899
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Electronic books
- Electronic books
- English fiction
- English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
- Great Britain
- History
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- European | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Literature and medicine -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
- MEDICAL -- General
- Physicians in literature
- Physicians in literature
- Quacks and quackery in literature
- Quacks and quackery in literature
- Literature and medicine
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- If nineteenth-century Britain witnessed the rise of medical professionalism, it also witnessed rampant quackery. It is tempting to categorize historical practices as either orthodox or quack, but what did these terms really signify in medical and public circles at the time? How did they develop and evolve? What do they tell us about actual medical practices? Doctoring the Novel explores the ways in which language constructs and stabilizes these slippery terms by examining medical quackery and orthodoxy in works such as Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Charles Dickens's Bleak House and Little Do
- Cataloging source
- E7B
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Pamboukian, Sylvia A
- Dewey number
- 823/.92093561
- Index
- index present
- Language note
- English
- LC call number
- PR890.M42
- LC item number
- P36 2012eb
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- dictionaries
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- English fiction
- Literature and medicine
- Quacks and quackery in literature
- Physicians in literature
- LITERARY CRITICISM
- MEDICAL
- English fiction
- Literature and medicine
- Physicians in literature
- Quacks and quackery in literature
- Great Britain
- Label
- Doctoring the novel : medicine and quackery from Shelley to Doyle, Sylvia A. Pamboukian
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Introduction: False professions: defining orthodoxy and quackery -- Orthodoxy or quackery? anatomy in Frankenstein -- Doctoring in Little Dorrit and Bleak House -- Legerdemain and the physician in Charlotte Bronte's Villette -- Poisons and the poisonous in Wilkie Collins's Armadale -- The quackery of Arthur Conan Doyle -- Conclusion: The in-laws: orthodoxy and quackery in Vernon Galbray
- Control code
- 787846305
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xiv, 207 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780821444061
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- c
- Other control number
- ebr10539256
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/ctt1j693rp
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)787846305
- Label
- Doctoring the novel : medicine and quackery from Shelley to Doyle, Sylvia A. Pamboukian
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Introduction: False professions: defining orthodoxy and quackery -- Orthodoxy or quackery? anatomy in Frankenstein -- Doctoring in Little Dorrit and Bleak House -- Legerdemain and the physician in Charlotte Bronte's Villette -- Poisons and the poisonous in Wilkie Collins's Armadale -- The quackery of Arthur Conan Doyle -- Conclusion: The in-laws: orthodoxy and quackery in Vernon Galbray
- Control code
- 787846305
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xiv, 207 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780821444061
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Other control number
- ebr10539256
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/ctt1j693rp
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)787846305
Subject
- 1800-1899
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Electronic books
- Electronic books
- English fiction
- English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
- Great Britain
- History
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- European | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Literature and medicine -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
- MEDICAL -- General
- Physicians in literature
- Physicians in literature
- Quacks and quackery in literature
- Quacks and quackery in literature
- Literature and medicine
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