Doctoring the novel : medicine and quackery from Shelley to Doyle /
Pamboukian, Sylvia A.
Athens : Ohio University Press,
c2012.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-199) and index.
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 Brontë's 'Villette' -- Poisons and the poisonous in Wilkie Collins's 'Armadale' -- The quackery of Arthur Conan Doyle -- The in-laws: orthodoxy and quackery in 'Vernon Galbray'.
English fiction
Literature and medicine
Quacks and quackery in literature.
Physicians in literature.