Penner L., Sparks T. (eds.) Victorian Medicine and Popular Culture

Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016. — 197 p.This collection of essays explores the rise of scientific medicine and its impact on Victorian popular culture. Chapters include an examination of Dickens's involvement with hospital funding, concerns over milk purity and the theatrical portrayal of drug addiction, plus a whole section devoted to medicine in crime fiction.'Dr Locock and his Quack': Professionalizing medicine, textualizing identity in the 1840s.
Dickens, metropolitan philanthropy and the London hospitals.
Cleanliness and medicinal cheer: Harriet Martineau, the 'People of Bleaburn' and the sanitary work of Household Words.
Lacteal crises: Debates over milk purity in Victorian Britain.
'The chemistry and botany of the kitchen': Scientific and domestic attempts to prevent food adulteration.
Medical bluebeards: The domestic threat of the poisoning doctor in the popular fiction of Ellen Wood.
Male hysteria, sexual inversion and the sensational hero in Wilkie Collins's Armadale.
Ungentlemanly habits: The dramaturgy of drug addiction in Fin-de Siècle theatrical adaptations of the Sherlock Holmes stories and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde.
From vivisection to gender reassignment: Imagining the feminine in The Island of Doctor Moreau.
Illness as metaphor in the Victorian novel: Reading popular fiction against medical history.