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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Fiona SubotskyPublisher: RCPsych/Cambridge University Press Imprint: RCPsych/Cambridge University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.70cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.340kg ISBN: 9781911623298ISBN 10: 191162329 Pages: 216 Publication Date: 31 October 2019 Audience: Professional and scholarly , General/trade , Professional & Vocational , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsPreface; Foreword; 1. Body and mind; 2. Medico-gothic; 3. Stoker medical circles; 4. Asylum doctors; 5. The gothic asylum; 6. Renfield, the pet lunatic; 7. The other patients; 8. Diagnosing Dracula; 9. Dread, disease and the asylum; 10. Occult blood; 11. Holes in the skull; 12. Dead, alive or undead; 13. Therapeutic armamentarium; 14. Compelling eyes; 15. Beastliness; 16. Vivisection or animal torture?; 17. Demons and doctors; 18. Scientists and the supernatural; 19. And Dracula for dentists …; 20. Sex and death; Index.Reviews'If, as Dr Subotsky tells us, it takes being bitten by a bat to produce a book of this depth, detail but also fun, then I recommend bat bites to all aspiring authors.' Professor Sir Simon Wessely, Regius Chair of Psychiatry, King's College London 'Fiona Subotsky is uniquely placed to deliver a consistently refreshing, informative and insightful account of the medical contexts informing Bram Stoker's vampire. Both a work of Gothic scholarship and a compelling medical history, this is exactly the kind of book the emergent field of Medical Humanities needs. Rigorous yet fun!' Roger Luckhurst, University of London, editor of The Cambridge Companion to Dracula 'But not just for doctors, and not just about Dracula! For students and enthusiasts of 19th-century gothic fiction, topics such as lunatic asylums, diagnosing disease, blood disorders, hypnotism, catalepsy, operations and medical experimentation, are explored not only in Stoker's Dracula, but in the work of Le Fanu, Kipling, Wilkie Collins, Conan Doyle, H.G. Wells, R.L. Stevenson and others. Dr Subotsky examines published contemporary medico-psychological source materials (and their resulting controversies), and applies them to our favourite vampire novel. Meticulously researched and referenced, this is an entertaining, thoroughly engrossing work of scholarship.' Julia Kruk, Chair of the Dracula Society 'If, as Dr Subotsky tells us, it takes being bitten by a bat to produce a book of this depth, detail but also fun, then I recommend bat bites to all aspiring authors.' Professor Sir Simon Wessely, Regius Chair of Psychiatry, King's College London 'Fiona Subotsky is uniquely placed to deliver a consistently refreshing, informative and insightful account of the medical contexts informing Bram Stoker's vampire. Both a work of Gothic scholarship and a compelling medical history, this is exactly the kind of book the emergent field of Medical Humanities needs. Rigorous yet fun!' Roger Luckhurst, University of London, editor of The Cambridge Companion to Dracula 'But not just for doctors, and not just about Dracula! For students and enthusiasts of 19th-century gothic fiction, topics such as lunatic asylums, diagnosing disease, blood disorders, hypnotism, catalepsy, operations and medical experimentation, are explored not only in Stoker's Dracula, but in the work of Le Fanu, Kipling, Wilkie Collins, Conan Doyle, H.G. Wells, R.L. Stevenson and others. Dr Subotsky examines published contemporary medico-psychological source materials (and their resulting controversies), and applies them to our favourite vampire novel. Meticulously researched and referenced, this is an entertaining, thoroughly engrossing work of scholarship.' Julia Kruk, Chair of the Dracula Society 'If, as Dr Subotsky tells us, it takes being bitten by a bat to produce a book of this depth, detail but also fun, then I recommend bat bites to all aspiring authors.' Professor Sir Simon Wessely, Regius Chair of Psychiatry, King's College London 'Fiona Subotsky is uniquely placed to deliver a consistently refreshing, informative and insightful account of the medical contexts informing Bram Stoker's vampire. Both a work of Gothic scholarship and a compelling medical history, this is exactly the kind of book the emergent field of Medical Humanities needs. Rigorous yet fun!' Roger Luckhurst, University of London, editor of The Cambridge Companion to Dracula 'But not just for doctors, and not just about Dracula! For students and enthusiasts of 19th-century gothic fiction, topics such as lunatic asylums, diagnosing disease, blood disorders, hypnotism, catalepsy, operations and medical experimentation, are explored not only in Stoker's Dracula, but in the work of Le Fanu, Kipling, Wilkie Collins, Conan Doyle, H.G. Wells, R.L. Stevenson and others. Dr Subotsky examines published contemporary medico-psychological source materials (and their resulting controversies), and applies them to our favourite vampire novel. Meticulously researched and referenced, this is an entertaining, thoroughly engrossing work of scholarship.' Julia Kruk, Chair of the Dracula Society Author InformationFiona Subotsky, Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, has held the posts of Medical Director of the Maudsley Hospital in London, Honorary Treasurer and Honorary Archivist of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, and President of the Medical Women's Federation. Apart from her professional achievements she has had a long-standing interest in history and literature and their medical connections, and has written and lectured extensively on related topics. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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