Diagnosing history: Medicine in television period drama

Part I. Early Modern Professions And Disease: 1. Golden Rats And Sick Empires: Portraying Medicine, Poverty, And The Bubonic Plague In La Peste / José Ragas, Patricia Palma, And Guillermo González-donoso ; 2. Wellness, Womanhood, And Witchcraft In Outlander: Televised Historical Portrayals Of Women's Shifting Roles In Medicine / Jennifer M. Fogel And Serenity Sutherland ; 3. Avoiding `the Faddlings Of Dr Choake': The Professionalisation Of Medicine In Poldark / Barbara Sadler ; 4. `infection Was Mary's Reward': Harlots And Televising The Realities Of Eighteenth-century English Prostitution / Kristin Brig And Emily J. Clark -- Part Ii. Pioneers, Heroes, And Villains: 5. Feminist Doctors And Medicine Women: The Lady Physician In The American Western / Jacqueline D. Antonovich ; 6. The Black Doctor On The Historical Small Screen: African American Physicians In Television Period Dramas / Kevin Mcqueeney ; 7. When Women Were Nurses: Gender, Nostalgia, And The Making Of Historical Heroines / Aeleah Soine ; 8. Heroic Childbirth And Call The Midwife / Katherine Byrne ; 9. `physician, Heal Thyself': The Good Doctor Of When The Boat Comes In / James Leggott -- Part Iii. Dissecting The Body: 10. `and When You Touched My Naked Body Your Fingertips Running Along My Flesh This Was Abuse, Not Science': Victorian Medicine In Showtime's Penny Dreadful / Julie Anne Taddeo ; 11. The Surgical Gaze In The Operating Theatre: Early Twentieth-century Surgery On Screen / Marie Allitt ; 12. Of Gods, Monsters, And Men: Science, Faith, The Law, And The Contested Body And Mind In The Frankenstein Chronicles And The Alienist / Andrea Wright -- Part Iv. `treating' The Mind: 13. Bad Or Mad? Branwell Bronte, Mental Health, And Alcoholism In Sally Wainwright's To Walk Invisible / Sarah E. Fanning And Claire O'callaghan ; 14. `after I Left England, They Thought I Was Mad. But They Taught Me To Use It -- Now It's A Gift': Representations Of Mental Illness In The Period Dramas Of Steven Knight / Dan Ward ; 15. Bitter Living Through Science: Melodramatic And Moral Readings Of Gay Conversion Therapy In A Place To Call Home / Gordon R. Alley-young. Edited By Katherine Byrne, Julie Anne Taddeo, And James Leggott. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.