Overview: Connects the medical humanities and mobilities studies.Draws on novels, poetry, journals, medical guidebooks, and visual culture.Details the rise of modern medicine and new modes of mobility due to th.Medicine and Mobility in Nineteenth-Century British Literature, History, and Culture analyses the cultural and literary histories of medicine and mobility as entangled processes whose discourses and practices constituted, influenced, and transformed each other. Presenting case studies of novels, poetry, travel narratives, diaries, ship magazines, skin care manuals, asylum records, press
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