Medical (Mal)Practice and the Illusion of Progress in Edward Berdoe’s St Bernard’s: The Romance of a Medical Student and Leonard Graham’s The Professor’s Wife: A Genealogical Analysis of Epistemological and Ethical Arguments in Two Late-Victorian Novels

Literature affords important insights into the impact of medical discoveries, and this essay discusses two late-Victorian novels that focus on the epistemological and ethical problems generated by medicine’s scientization: Edward Berdoe’s St Bernard’s: The Romance of a Medical Student (1887), which...

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Main Author: Adrian Tait
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée 2019-12-01
Series:Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens
Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/cve/6301
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