Beschreibung
Benito Pérez Galdós is revered as Spain’s greatest nineteenth-century author. This book is the first detailed study of the medicine that appears in his work. It analyses the sources available to Galdós’s network, issues such as epidemic disease, madness and children’s diseases, and the significance of Galdós’s depictions of disease and of doctors.
Autorenportrait
Michael W. Stannard is an Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of History at the University of Exeter. He studied medicine at the Royal London Hospital, graduating in 1966, and then pursued a distinguished medical career that culminated in his appointment as Associate Professor of Pediatric Radiology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas. He was awarded his PhD in Spanish literature from the University of Minnesota in 2011.
Rezension
«
is a thoroughly interesting and exceptionally instructive book for all readers of Galdós’ work.»
(Peter A. Bly, Bulletin of Spanish Studies XCIV/2017)
Inhalt
Contents: Doctors and Medicine in Galdós’s Madrid – Epidemics: Cholera, Influenza and Smallpox – Endemic Diseases: Tuberculosis, Syphilis and Angina – Alcoholism – Madness – Eye Disease and Blindness – Childhood Diseases. Inhaltsverzeichnis
