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Doctoring the novel : medicine and quackery from Shelley to Doyle /

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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Pamboukian, Sylvia A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Athens : Ohio University Press, ©2012.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: False professions: defining orthodoxy and quackery
  • Orthodoxy or quackery? anatomy in Frankenstein
  • Doctoring in Little Dorrit and Bleak House
  • Legerdemain and the physician in Charlotte Bronte's Villette
  • Poisons and the poisonous in Wilkie Collins's Armadale
  • The quackery of Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Conclusion: The in-laws: orthodoxy and quackery in Vernon Galbray.