The Resource Victorian medicine and popular culture, edited by Louise Penner and Tabitha Sparks
Victorian medicine and popular culture, edited by Louise Penner and Tabitha Sparks
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The item Victorian medicine and popular culture, edited by Louise Penner and Tabitha Sparks represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Missouri-St. Louis Libraries.
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- 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
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource.
- Contents
-
- 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 1840s -- 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 Adulteration
- 6 Medical Bluebeards: The Domestic Threat of the Poisoning Doctor in the Popular Fiction of Ellen Wood7 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; Index
- Isbn
- 9781781447963
- Label
- Victorian medicine and popular culture
- Title
- Victorian medicine and popular culture
- Statement of responsibility
- edited by Louise Penner and Tabitha Sparks
- Subject
-
- United Kingdom
- 1800-1899
- Culture
- Electronic book
- Great Britain
- HEALTH & FITNESS -- Holism
- HEALTH & FITNESS -- Reference
- History
- History of Medicine
- History, 19th Century
- MEDICAL -- Alternative Medicine
- MEDICAL -- Atlases
- MEDICAL -- Essays
- MEDICAL -- Family & General Practice
- MEDICAL -- Holistic Medicine
- MEDICAL -- Osteopathy
- Medicine
- Medicine -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
- Medicine in Literature
- Medicine in literature
- Medicine in literature
- Popular culture
- Popular culture -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
- Public Health -- history
- Public health
- Public health -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
- Language
- eng
- 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
- Cataloging source
- N$T
- Dewey number
- 610.94109034
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- R487
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
-
- dictionaries
- bibliography
- NLM call number
-
- 2016 C-374
- WZ 70 FA1
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
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- Penner, Louise
- Sparks, Tabitha
- Series statement
- Science and culture in the nineteenth century
- Series volume
- number 28
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Medicine
- Public health
- Popular culture
- Medicine in literature
- History of Medicine
- Public Health
- Medicine in Literature
- History, 19th Century
- Culture
- United Kingdom
- HEALTH & FITNESS
- HEALTH & FITNESS
- MEDICAL
- MEDICAL
- MEDICAL
- MEDICAL
- MEDICAL
- MEDICAL
- Medicine
- Medicine in literature
- Popular culture
- Public health
- Great Britain
- Label
- Victorian medicine and popular culture, edited by Louise Penner and Tabitha Sparks
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- 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
-
- 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 1840s -- 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 Adulteration
- 6 Medical Bluebeards: The Domestic Threat of the Poisoning Doctor in the Popular Fiction of Ellen Wood7 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; Index
- Control code
- 908145833
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource.
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781781447963
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)908145833
- Label
- Victorian medicine and popular culture, edited by Louise Penner and Tabitha Sparks
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- 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
-
- 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 1840s -- 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 Adulteration
- 6 Medical Bluebeards: The Domestic Threat of the Poisoning Doctor in the Popular Fiction of Ellen Wood7 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; Index
- Control code
- 908145833
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource.
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781781447963
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)908145833
Subject
- United Kingdom
- 1800-1899
- Culture
- Electronic book
- Great Britain
- HEALTH & FITNESS -- Holism
- HEALTH & FITNESS -- Reference
- History
- History of Medicine
- History, 19th Century
- MEDICAL -- Alternative Medicine
- MEDICAL -- Atlases
- MEDICAL -- Essays
- MEDICAL -- Family & General Practice
- MEDICAL -- Holistic Medicine
- MEDICAL -- Osteopathy
- Medicine
- Medicine -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
- Medicine in Literature
- Medicine in literature
- Medicine in literature
- Popular culture
- Popular culture -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
- Public Health -- history
- Public health
- Public health -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
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