Doctoring the novel : medicine and quackery from Shelley to Doyle / Sylvia A. Pamboukian.

Athens : Ohio University Press, [2012], ©2012.

xiv, 207 pages ; 24 cm

False professions : defining orthodoxy and quackery -- Orthodoxy or quackery? anatomy in 'Frankenstein' -- Doctoring in 'Little Dorrit' and 'Bleak house' -- Legerdemain and the physician in Charlotte Brontë's 'Villette' -- Poisons and the poisonous in Wilkie Collins's 'Armadale' -- The quackery of Arthur Conan Doyle -- The in-laws: orthodoxy and quackery in 'Vernon Galbray'.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-199) and index.