Book of Donmon Teith

This ground-breaking study examines visual and literary responses to, and representations of, illness, dying and death from the perspective of the chronically i

Explores the impact of changing medical practices on ordinary people in nineteenth-century America.

On June 8, 2010, while on a book tour for his bestselling memoir, Hitch-22, Christopher Hitchens was stricken in his New York hotel room with excruciating pain

This collection examines different aspects of attitudes towards disease and death in writing of the long eighteenth century. Taking three conditions as examples