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

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pamboukian, Sylvia A.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Athens : Ohio University Press, [2012]
Subjects:
Physicians in literature.
Quacks and quackery in literature.
Literature and medicine > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 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.