This book explores medical and health periodicals of the nineteenth century: their contemporary significance, their readership, and how historians have approach

This book explores medical and health periodicals of the nineteenth century: their contemporary significance, their readership, and how historians have approach

In Reading for Health: Medical Narratives and the Nineteenth-Century Novel, Erika Wright argues that the emphasis in Victorian Studies on disease as the primary

"Examines the relationship between photography and medicine in American culture. Focuses on the American Civil War and postbellum Philadelphia to explore how me

Students of the history of medicine and of American history in general will welcome this collection of thirty papers originally published in nineteenth-century