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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.

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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.
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Dr. Nicholas Cambridge is an Honorary Research Fellow in Humanities at the University of Buckingham. In 2017 he was a Visiting Scholar in Medical Humanities at Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia. He worked for 25 years as a general medical practitioner in Surrey, England, when he also obtained an MD degree in Medical History from the University of London. He is a well known lecturer on Dickens, and the author of several papers on Dickens in relation to medicine.