Diagnosing history : medicine in television period drama / edited by Katherine Byrne, Julie Anne Taddeo, and James Leggott.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medicine on television.

Historical television programs--History and criticism.

Historical television programs.

Television series--History and criticism.

Television series.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xv, 284 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2022.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. I Early modern professions and disease

1. Golden rats and sick empires: portraying medicine, poverty, and the bubonic plague in La Peste / Guillermo Gonzalez-Donoso

2. Wellness, womanhood, and witchcraft in Outlander: televised historical portrayals of women's shifting roles in medicine / Serenity Sutherland

3. Avoiding `the faddlings of Dr Choake': the professionalisation of medicine in Poldark / Barbara Sadler

4. `Infection was Mary's reward': Harlots and televising the realities of eighteenth-century English prostitution / Emily J. Clark

pt. II Pioneers, heroes, and villains

5. Feminist doctors and medicine women: the lady physician in the American western / Jacqueline D. Antonovich

6. The Black doctor on the historical small screen: African American physicians in television period dramas / Kevin McQueeney

7. When women were nurses: gender, nostalgia, and the making of historical heroines / Aeleah Soine

8. Heroic childbirth and Call the Midwife / Katherine Byrne

9. `Physician, heal thyself': the good doctor of When the Boat Comes In / James Leggott

pt. III Dissecting the body

10. `And when you touched my naked body your fingertips running along my flesh this was abuse, not science': Victorian medicine in Showtime's Penny Dreadful / Julie Anne Taddeo

11. The surgical gaze in the operating theatre: early twentieth-century surgery on screen / Marie Allitt

12. Of gods, monsters, and men: science, faith, the law, and the contested body and mind in The Frankenstein Chronicles and The Alienist / Andrea Wright

pt. IV `Treating' the mind

13. Bad or mad? Branwell Bronte, mental health, and alcoholism in Sally Wainwright's To Walk Invisible / Claire O'Callaghan

14. `After I left England, they thought I was mad. But they taught me to use it

now it's a gift': representations of mental illness in the period dramas of Steven Knight / Dan Ward

15. Bitter living through science: melodramatic and moral readings of gay conversion therapy in A Place to Call Home / Gordon R. Alley-Young.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

1526163284

9781526163288

OCLC:

1276933739