Doctoring the novel : medicine and quackery from Shelley to Doyle
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Doctoring the novel : medicine and quackery from Shelley to Doyle
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- Doctoring the novel : medicine and quackery from Shelley to Doyle
- 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
- 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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- bibliography
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