Diagnosing history

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This timely collection examines representations of medicine and medical practices in international period drama television. A preoccupation with medical plots and settings can be found across a range of important historical series, including<i>Outlander</i>,<i>Poldark</i>,<i>The Knick</i>,<i>Call the Midwife</i>,<i>La Peste</i> and<i>A Place to Call Home</i>. Such shows offer a critique of medical history while demonstrating how contemporary viewers access and understand the past. 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. Featuring original chapters on period television from the UK, the US, Spain and Australia,<i>Diagnosing history</i>offers an accessible, global and multidisciplinary contribution to both televisual and medical history.

Autorenportrait

<p>Katherine Byrne is Lecturer in English at Ulster University<br>Julie Anne Taddeo is Research Professor of History at the University of Maryland<br>James Leggott is Associate Professorof Film and Television Studies at Northumbria University</p>

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