Article ID: CBB001200788

Charles Dickens (1812--70): “The longer I live the more I doubt the doctors” (2012)

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On the relationship of Dickens with his own physicians and sugeons. The article lists the names of doctors Dickens consuted for various ailments and critiques of the medical profession which influenced his portray of medical practitioners in his published works.

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Authors & Contributors
Lerner, Barron H.
Buckland, Adelene
Alexander, Sarah C.
Amelang, Katrin
Penner, Louise
Purton, Valerie
Journals
Victorian Literature and Culture
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences
Social Studies of Science
Social History of Medicine
Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science
Nineteenth-Century Contexts
Publishers
Pickering & Chatto
Oxford University Press
University of Leeds (United Kingdom
University of Chicago Press
University of California Press
Johns Hopkins University Press
Concepts
Medicine
Popular culture
Science and literature
Science and culture
Disease and diseases
Therapeutic practice; therapy; treatment
People
Dickens, Charles
Nesbit, Edith
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord
Scott, Walter
Ruskin, John
Owen, Richard
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
21st century
20th century, late
20th century, early
18th century
Places
Great Britain
United States
Germany
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