Victorian Medicine and Popular Culture
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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.
Medicine, great britainPublic health, great britainPopular culture, great britainMedicine in literatureMedicineHistoryPublic healthPopular cultureHistory of MedicineCultureEnglischLiteratur