Diagnosing History

Medicine in Television Period Drama

Diagnosing History
James Leggott, Katherine Byrne, Julie Anne Taddeo
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Hardback
h234 x 156mm - 312pg
1 Mar 2022 UK
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9781526163288
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This timely collection examines representations of medicine and medical practices in international period drama television. A preoccupation with medical plots and settings can be found across a range of important historical series, including Outlander, Poldark, The Knick, Call the Midwife, La Peste and A Place to Call Home. Such shows offer a critique of medical history while demonstrating how contemporary viewers access and understand the past. Topics covered in this collection include the innovations and horrors of surgery; the intersection of gender, class, race and medicine on the American frontier; psychiatry and the trauma of war; and the connections between past and present pandemics. Featuring original chapters on period television from the UK, the US, Spain and Australia, Diagnosing history offers an accessible, global and multidisciplinary contribution to both televisual and medical history.
Katherine Byrne is Lecturer in English at Ulster University Julie Anne Taddeo is Research Professor of History at the University of Maryland James Leggott is Associate Professor of Film and Television Studies at Northumbria University
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ISBN-13: 9781526163288
Published: 1 Mar 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Format: Hardback
Height: 234mm
Width: 156mm
Pages: 312

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