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The Lancet (British edition), 2018-07, Vol.392 (10143), p.204-204
Ort / Verlag
London: Elsevier Ltd
Erscheinungsjahr
2018
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Elsevier ScienceDirect Journals Complete
Beschreibungen/Notizen
In 1839, Lewes visited the up-and-coming author Charles Dickens at his home in Doughty Street, London, UK, and, after a swift glance at his bookcases, declared that Dickens was “completely outside philosophy, science, and the higher literature”. [...]the Charles Dickens Museum has attempted to put the record straight with an exhibition that celebrates the great Victorian writer's polymathic interests in almost every field of science, technology, and medicine, in the very house where the myth originated. While his novels exposed social scandals such as homelessness, child poverty, and conditions in the workhouses, Dickens used his public prominence to support initiatives such as Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children and threw his weight behind medical innovations such as chloroform, which his wife Catherine used in childbirth in 1849.