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“clark lawlor”

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  • Myth and (mis)information

    Constructing the medical professions in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century English literature and culture

    Edited by Allan Ingram, Helen Williams, Clark Lawlor ...
    This collection draws together original scholarship from international contributors on a range of aspects of professional and semi-professional medical work and its relations to British culture. It combines a diverse spectrum of scholarly approaches, from medical history to book history, exploring literary and scientific texts, such as satiric poetry, essays, anatomies, advertisements, and the ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • Literature and Medicine: Volume 1

    The Eighteenth Century

    Offering an authoritative and timely account of the relationship between literature and medicine in the eighteenth century and Romantic period, a time when most diseases had no cure, this collection provides a valuable overview of how two dynamic fields influenced and shaped one another. Covering a period in which both medicine and literature underwent frequent and sometimes radical change, the ... Read more

    $91.09 USD

  • Literature and Medicine: Volume 2

    The Nineteenth Century

    by Andrew Mangham ...
    Offering an authoritative account of the relationship between literature and medicine between approximately 1800 and 1900, this volume brings together leading scholars in the field to provide a valuable overview of how two dynamic fields influenced and shaped each during a period of revolutionary change. During the nineteenth century, medicine was being redefined as a subject in which experimental ... Read more

    $91.09 USD

  • From Melancholia to Prozac

    A history of depression

    by Clark Lawlor ...
    Depression is an experience known to millions. But arguments rage on aspects of its definition and its impact on societies present and past: do drugs work, or are they merely placebos? Is the depression we have today merely a construct of the pharmaceutical industry? Is depression under- or over-diagnosed? Should we be paying for expensive 'talking cure' treatments like psychoanalysis or Cognitive ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

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  • Bodies Politic

    Disease, Death and Doctors in Britain, 1650–1900

    by Roy Porter ...
    Series series Picturing History
    In this historical tour de force, now available in B-format paperback, Roy Porter takes a critical look at representations of the body in health, disease and death in Britain from the mid-seventeenth to the twentieth century. Porter argues that great symbolic weight was attached to contrasting conceptions of the healthy and diseased body, and that such ideas were mapped onto antithetical notions ... Read more

    $13.59 USD

  • Consumptive Chic

    A History of Beauty, Fashion, and Disease

    by Professor Carolyn A. Day ...
    During the late 18th and early 19th centuries, there was a tubercular 'moment' in which perceptions of the consumptive disease became inextricably tied to contemporary concepts of beauty, playing out in the clothing fashions of the day. With the ravages of the illness widely regarded as conferring beauty on the sufferer, it became commonplace to regard tuberculosis as a positive affliction, one to ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • The Story of Pain

    From Prayer to Painkillers

    by Joanna Bourke ...
    Everyone knows what is feels like to be in pain. Scraped knees, toothaches, migraines, giving birth, cancer, heart attacks, and heartaches: pain permeates our entire lives. We also witness other people - loved ones - suffering, and we 'feel with' them. It is easy to assume this is the end of the story: 'pain-is-pain-is-pain', and that is all there is to say. But it is not. In fact, the way in ... Read more

    $11.39 USD

  • What It Means to Be Human

    Historical Reflections from the 1800s to the Present

    by Joanna Bourke ...
    In 1872, a woman known only as "An Earnest Englishwoman" published a letter titled "Are Women Animals?" in which she protested against the fact that women were not treated as fully human. In fact, their status was worse than that of animals: regulations prohibiting cruelty against dogs, horses, and cattle were significantly more punitive than laws against cruelty to women. The Earnest Englishwoman ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of the Victorian Novel

    Edited by Lisa Rodensky ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Much has been written about the Victorian novel, and for good reason. The cultural power it exerted (and, to some extent, still exerts) is beyond question. The Oxford Handbook of the Victorian Novel contributes substantially to this thriving scholarly field by offering new approaches to familiar topics (the novel and science, the Victorian Bildungroman) as well as essays on topics often overlooked ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • A New Companion to Victorian Literature and Culture

    Edited by Herbert F. Tucker ...
    Series series Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
    A NEW COMPANION TO VICTORIAN LITERATURE AND CULTUREThe Victorian period was a time of rapid cultural change, which resulted in a huge and varied literary output. A New Companion to Victorian Literature and Culture offers experienced guidance to the literature of nineteenth-century Britain and its social and historical context. This revised and expanded edition comprises contributions from over 30 ... Read more

    $178.00 USD

  • Charles Bell and the Anatomy of Reform

    by Carin Berkowitz ...
    Sir Charles Bell (1774–1842) was a medical reformer in a great age of reform—an occasional and reluctant vivisectionist, a theistic popularizer of natural science, a Fellow of the Royal Society, a surgeon, an artist, and a teacher. He was among the last of a generation of medical men who strove to fashion a particularly British science of medicine; who formed their careers, their research, and ... Read more

    $27.39 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of the Eighteenth-Century Novel

    Edited by J. A. Downie ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Although the emergence of the English novel is generally regarded as an eighteenth-century phenomenon, this is the first book to be published professing to cover the 'eighteenth-century English novel' in its entirety. This Handbook surveys the development of the English novel during the 'long' eighteenth century-in other words, from the later seventeenth century right through to the first three ... Read more

    $42.29 USD