Victorian Medicine and Popular Culture - Science & Culture in the Nineteenth Century - Louise Penner - Books - University of Pittsburgh Press - 9780822945024 - June 30, 2015
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Victorian Medicine and Popular Culture - Science & Culture in the Nineteenth Century


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Explores the rise of scientific medicine and its impact on Victorian popular culture. Chapters include an examination of Charles Dickens's involvement with hospital funding, concerns over milk purity and the theatrical portrayal of drug addiction, plus a whole section devoted to the representation of medicine in crime fiction.


256 pages

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released June 30, 2015
ISBN13 9780822945024
Publishers University of Pittsburgh Press
Pages 256
Dimensions 150 × 220 × 20 mm   ·   458 g

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