Literature and medicine in nineteenth-century Britain: from Mary Shelley to George Eliot

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Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: Romantic materialism 2. Science and sympathy in Frankenstein 3. Natural supernaturalism in Thomas Carlyle and Richard Owen 4. Wuthering Heights and domestic medicine: the child's body and the book 5. Literalization in the novels of Charlotte Bronte 6. Charles Darwin and Romantic medicine 7. Middlemarch and the medical case report: the patient's narrative and the physical exam Notes Bibliography Index.

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Empathy and Medical Education History of Medicine Studies Medical, Sociocultural, and Biopolitical Studies

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Published in: Choice Reviews Online

Volume 43, Issue 02, pp. 43-0782

DOI: 10.5860/choice.43-0782

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Literature and medicine in nineteenth-century Britain: from Mary Shelley to George Eliot

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