{"product_id":"diagnosing-history-medicine-in-television-period-drama-9781526163288","title":"Diagnosing History: Medicine in Television Period","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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 \u003ci\u003eOutlander\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePoldark\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Knick\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCall the Midwife\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLa Peste\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eA Place to Call Home\u003c\/i\u003e. 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, \u003ci\u003eDiagnosing history \u003c\/i\u003eoffers an accessible, global and multidisciplinary contribution to both televisual and medical history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction – Katherine Byrne, Julie Anne Taddeo, and James Leggott\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part I:  Early modern professions and disease\u003cbr\u003e 1 Golden rats and sick empires: portraying medicine, poverty, and the bubonic plague in \u003ci\u003eLa Peste \u003c\/i\u003e– José Ragas, Patricia Palma, and Guillermo González-Donoso\u003cbr\u003e2 Wellness, womanhood, and witchcraft in \u003ci\u003eOutlander\u003c\/i\u003e: televised historical portrayals of women’s shifting roles in medicine – Jennifer M. Fogel and Serenity Sutherland\u003cbr\u003e3 Avoiding ‘the faddlings of Dr Choake’: the professionalisation of medicine in \u003ci\u003ePoldark\u003c\/i\u003e – Barbara Sadler \u003cbr\u003e4 ‘Infection was Mary’s reward’: \u003ci\u003eHarlots\u003c\/i\u003e and televising the realities of eighteenth-century English prostitution – Kristin Brig and Emily J. Clark\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part II:   Pioneers, heroes, and villains\u003cbr\u003e 5 Feminist doctors and medicine women: the lady physician in the American western – Jacqueline D. Antonovich\u003cbr\u003e 6 The Black doctor on the historical small screen: African American physicians in television period dramas – Kevin McQueeney\u003cbr\u003e7 When women were nurses: gender, nostalgia, and the making of historical heroines – Aeleah Soine\u003cbr\u003e8 Heroic childbirth and \u003ci\u003eCall the Midwife\u003c\/i\u003e – Katherine Byrne\u003cbr\u003e9 ‘Physician, heal thyself’: the good doctor of \u003ci\u003eWhen the Boat Comes In \u003c\/i\u003e– James Leggott\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part III:  Dissecting the body\u003cbr\u003e 10 ‘And when you touched my naked body … your fingertips running along my flesh … this was abuse, not science’: Victorian medicine in Showtime's \u003ci\u003ePenny Dreadful\u003c\/i\u003e – Julie Anne Taddeo\u003cbr\u003e11 The surgical gaze in the operating theatre: early twentieth-century surgery on screen – Marie Allitt\u003cbr\u003e12 Of gods, monsters, and men: science, faith, the law, and the contested body and mind in \u003ci\u003eThe Frankenstein Chronicles\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Alienist\u003c\/i\u003e – Andrea Wright\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Part IV: 'Treating' the mind\u003cbr\u003e 13 Bad or mad?: Branwell Brontë, mental health, and alcoholism in Sally Wainwright’s \u003ci\u003eTo Walk Invisible\u003c\/i\u003e – Sarah E. Fanning and Claire O’Callaghan\u003cbr\u003e14 ‘After I left England, they thought I was mad. But they taught me to use it – now it’s a gift’: representations of mental illness in the period dramas of Stephen Knight – Dan Ward\u003cbr\u003e15 Bitter living through science: melodramatic and moral readings of gay conversion therapy in \u003ci\u003eA Place to Call Home\u003c\/i\u003e – Gordon R. Alley-Young\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAfterword – Jessica Meyer\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51020019368279,"sku":"9781526163288","price":67.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781526163288.jpg?v=1750782087","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/diagnosing-history-medicine-in-television-period-drama-9781526163288","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}