A medical companion to Dickens's fiction
By: Joanne Eysell.
Series: European university studies. Series XIV, Anglo-Saxon language and literature ;; v. 417 =; Europäische Hochschulschriften. Reihe XIV, Angelsächsische Sprache und Literatur ; Bd. 417; Europäische Hochschulschriften.; Bd. 417.
Publisher: Peter Lang; Lang Publishing, Incorporated, Peter
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Frankfurt am Main; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
Subjects: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 -- Knowledge -- Medicine.; Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 -- Characters -- Physicians.; Literature and medicine -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.; Physicians in literature.; Medicine in literature.; Diseases in literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-231) and index.
Based on the author's thesis (Ph.D., Open University, 2000).
Table of contents: title: Dickens's medical practitioners; title: The "Pickwick Syndrome" and other diseases; title: Epilepsy; title: Stroke; title: Tuberculosis; title: Smallpox; title: Public health; title: Folk medicine, unorthodox medicine and superstitions; title: Spontaneous human combustion.