Diagnosing History: Medicine in Television Period Drama Byrne Katherine
Diagnosing History: Medicine in Television Period Drama Byrne Katherine This timely collection examines representations of medicine and medical practices in international period drama television.…
Specifikacia Diagnosing History: Medicine in Television Period Drama Byrne Katherine
Diagnosing History: Medicine in Television Period Drama Byrne Katherine
This timely collection examines representations of medicine and medical practices in international period drama television. Such shows offer a critique of medical history while demonstrating how contemporary viewers access and understand the past. 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.
Featuring original chapters on period television from the UK, the US, Spain and Australia, Diagnosing history offers an accessible, global and 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.
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