Bleak Health: The medical history of Charles Dickens and his family

by Nicholas Cambridge

Dickens had a life-long obsession with health and medicine. This landmark new book documents this more fully than ever. It is valuable, too, for studies of public health changes in the 19th-century. / Bleak Health - by a medically-trained literary historian - offers an in-depth study of Dickens's life and letters from a medical viewpoint, throwing new light on his world; his medical history; that of his family, and his obsessions.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1913087980
• ISBN13: 9781913087982
• Release Date: July 2022
• Publisher: Edward Everett Root
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"