{"product_id":"doctoring-the-novel-medicine-and-quackery-from-shelley-to-doyle-hardback-9780821419908","title":"Doctoring the Novel; Medicine and Quackery from Shelley to Doyle (Hardback) 9780821419908","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eDoctoring the Novel\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eMedicine and Quackery from Shelley to Doyle\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eSylvia A. Pamboukian (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780821419908, Ohio University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 14 March 2012\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e224 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.2 cm, 0.462 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This very perceptive and imaginative study makes a significant contribution\u003cbr\u003e to Victorian studies.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \"Pamboukian's book is an insightful look into medicine and language that should inspire further inquiry into the literature of the period and, as she suggests in her concluding remarks, medicine today.\" (Victoriographies) \u003ci\u003e\"…Doctoring the Novel\u003c\/i\u003e is a valuable and unique contribution to Victorian studies because it bridges the scholarly gap between historical studies of nineteenth-century medicine and literary readings of medicine that focus on medicine as a hegemonic force. The text is also a helpful resource for scholars and students in the medical humanities. Pamboukian not only provides insightful readings of Shelley, Brontë, Dickens, and Doyle through the lens of medical discourse, but she also justifies why such readings are productive.\" (Journal of Medical Humanities)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf 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?\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eDoctoring the Novel\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e explores the ways in which language constructs and stabilizes these slippery terms by examining medical quackery and orthodoxy in works such as Mary Shelley's \u003ci\u003eFrankenstein\u003c\/i\u003e, Charles Dickens's \u003ci\u003eBleak House\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLittle Dorrit\u003c\/i\u003e, Charlotte Brontë's \u003ci\u003eVillette\u003c\/i\u003e, Wilkie Collins's \u003ci\u003eArmadale\u003c\/i\u003e, and Arthur Conan Doyle's \u003ci\u003eStark Munro Letters\u003c\/i\u003e. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Ohio University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52574523031832,"sku":"9780821419908","price":45.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/doctoring-the-novel-medicine-and-quackery-from-shelley-to-doyle-hardback-9780821419908","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}