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A few years ago I had published an article on Dickens:
Ohry A. "Shake me up, Judy!": on Dickens, medicine and spinal cord disorders.
Ortop Traumatol Rehabil. 2012 Sep-Oct;14(5):483-91. doi: 10.5604/15093492.1018930.
The works of Charles Dickens (1812-1870) were for a long time a solid background for social, historical, psychological, literary and medical 19th century studies.
In this article, some light is cast on Dickens, medicine and disabled people in his works, especially on paraplegics.
British English is the mother tongue and standard for the English-speaking world. So it’s no surprise that British literature is likewise an exemplar for the literary world. It’s hard to imagine that anyone will ever surpass the work of Chaucer, Shakespeare, Donne, Milton, Blake, Austen, Keats, Dickens, Doyle, or Woolf. Kudos to Great Britain for novelist Charles Dickens, whose vivid Victorian characters have inspired worldwide entertainment, study, and social reform.
Re: Science and literature: a tale of two Dickens
A few years ago I had published an article on Dickens:
Ohry A. "Shake me up, Judy!": on Dickens, medicine and spinal cord disorders.
Ortop Traumatol Rehabil. 2012 Sep-Oct;14(5):483-91. doi: 10.5604/15093492.1018930.
The works of Charles Dickens (1812-1870) were for a long time a solid background for social, historical, psychological, literary and medical 19th century studies.
In this article, some light is cast on Dickens, medicine and disabled people in his works, especially on paraplegics.
Just to add information.
Avi Ohry MD
Competing interests: No competing interests