Quite early in her book Maria Frawley comes near to defining the word 'invalid'as she
applies it to the group of British valetudinarians she has studied in minute detail.'The invalid …

book reviews Bull. Hist. Med,., 2006, 80 179 diately aware"; taking a slightly different
perspective, Thomas Carlyle proclaimed that" self-contemplation... is infallibly the symptom …

Ce travail d'analyse des textes écrits par des invalides a le souci permanent de les situer
dans le contexte de l'Angleterre victorienne, de l'évangélisme, de l'apparition d'une identité …

Two recent studies of illness and disability, Maria Fraw Identity in Nineteenth-Century Britain
and Martha Sto Fictions of Affliction: Physical Disability in Victorian Cul growth in interest in …

100 HISTORY OF MEDICINE REVIEWS-ISIS, 80: 1: 301 (1989) the rise of medical science.
Such challengers often focus their attention on the outsiders of a period who attacked the …

The pallid and recumbent invalid can be found in the interiors of many nineteenth-century
homes. What novel fails to include these supine valetudinarians? And in real life, the …

The century of the" enlightenment" was a remarkable era of British history. The inventions of
the industrial revolution transformed society, Britain established its imperial role, the first of …

There is something disturbingly familiar about the preoccupation of 18th-century medical
organizations with the qualifications and rights of their members when the service they …

An influential body of historians has in recent decades meted out rough treatment to the
traditional histories of medicine in the past two or threecenturies, which interpreted itas a …