Search Results for: Health Medicine And Society In Victorian England

This work offers a social and cultural history of Victorian medicine "from below," as experienced by ordinary practitioners and patients, often described in the

This work offers a social and cultural history of Victorian medicine "from below," as experienced by ordinary practitioners and patients, often described in the

"Much like consumers today, late-nineteenth-century Londoners lived in a mass culture of commodified abundance and conspicuous consumption...Like us, they wrest

An “utterly brilliant” and deeply researched guide to the sights, smells, endless wonders, and profound changes of nineteenth century British history (Books

This is the first full-length study of spectacles in the Victorian period. It examines how the Victorians shaped our understanding of functional visual capacity