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OHIO UNIVERSITY PRESS Doctoring the Novel: Medicine and Quackery from Shelley to Doyle

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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 Shelleys Frankenstein, Charles Dickenss Bleak House and Little Dorrit, Charlotte Brontës Villette, Wilkie Collinss Armadale, and Arthur Conan Doyles Stark Munro Letters. Contextualized in both medical and popular publishing, literary analysis reveals that even supposedly medico-scientific concepts such as orthodoxy and quackery evolve not in elite laboratories and bourgeois medical societies but in the rough-and-tumble of the public sphere, a view that acknowledges the considerable, and often underrated, influence of language on medical practices.

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Pages Count - 222. Binding type - Hardcover.

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Brand: OHIO UNIVERSITY PRESS
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0821419900
Category: Books > Subjects > Health, Family & Lifestyle > Medical & Healthcare Practitioners > Allied Health Professions
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 14 March 2012
Listed Since: 23 December 2011

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