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Introduction Louise Penner and Tabitha Sparks 1. 'Dr. Locock and his Quack': Professionalizing Medicine, Textualizing Identity in the 1840s Kevin A. Morrison 2. Dickens, Metropolitan Philanthropy and the London Hospitals Louise Penner 3. Cleanliness and Medicinal Cheer: Harriet Martineau, the 'People of Bleaburn' and the Sanitary Work of Household Words Meegan Kennedy 4. Lacteal Crises: Debates over Milk Purity in Victorian Britain Jacob Steere-Williams 5. 'The Chemistry and Botany of the Kitchen': Scientific and Domestic Attempts to Prevent Food Adulteration Julie Kraft 6. Medical Bluebeards: The Domestic Threat of the Poisoning Doctor in the Popular Fiction of Ellen Wood Cheryl Blake 7. Male Hysteria, Sexual Inversion and the Sensational Hero in Wilkie Collins's Armadale Marc Milton Ducusin 8. Ungentlemanly Habits: The Dramaturgy of Drug Addiction in Fin-de-Siecle Theatrical Adaptations of the Sherlock Holmes Stories and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Meredith Conti 9. From Vivisection to Gender Reassignment: Imagining the Feminine in The Island of Doctor Moreau Ellen J. Stockstill 10. Illness as Metaphor in the Victorian Novel: Reading Popular Fiction against Medical History Tabitha Sparks |
