Bleak Health: The medical history of Charles Dickens and his family – Hardcover-Quality Guarantee

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by
Nicholas Cambridge (Author)

Dickens had a life-long obsession with health and medicine. This landmark new book documents this more fully than ever. It is valuable, too, for studies of public health changes in the 19th-century. / Bleak Health – by a medically-trained literary historian – offers an in-depth study of Dickens’s life and letters from a medical viewpoint, throwing new light on his world; his medical history; that of his family, and his obsessions.

Number of Pages: 220Dimensions: 0.56 x 8.5 x 5.5 INPublication Date: June 03, 2022