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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. |
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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. |
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9781781447963 (electronic bk.) |
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1781447969 (electronic bk.) |
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9781781447970 |
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1781447977 |
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1848935692 |
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9781848935693 |
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