Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Contributors -- List of Figures -- Introduction - Louise Penner and Tabitha Sparks -- 1. 'Dr Locock and his Quack': Professionalizing Medicine, Textualizing Identity in the 1840s - Kevin A. Morrison -- 2. Dickens, Metropolitan Philanthropy and the London Hospitals - Louise Penner -- 3. Cleanliness and Medicinal Cheer: Harriet Martineau, the 'People of Bleaburn' and the Sanitary Work of Household Words - Meegan Kennedy -- 4. Lacteal Crises: Debates over Milk Purity in Victorian Britain - Jacob Steere-Williams -- 5. 'The Chemistry and Botany of the Kitchen': Scientific and Domestic Attempts to Prevent Food Adulteration - Julie Kraft -- 6. Medical Bluebeards: The Domestic Threat of the Poisoning Doctor in the Popular Fiction of Ellen Wood - Cheryl Blake Price -- 7. Male Hysteria, Sexual Inversion and the Sensational Hero in Wilkie Collins's Armadale - Marc Milton Ducusin -- 8. Ungentlemanly Habits: The Dramaturgy of Drug Addiction in Fin-de-Siècle Theatrical Adaptations of the Sherlock Holmes Stories and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde - Meredith Conti -- 9. From Vivisection to Gender Reassignment: Imagining the Feminine in The Island of Doctor Moreau - Ellen J. Stockstill -- 10. Illness as Metaphor in the Victorian Novel: Reading Popular Fiction against Medical History - Tabitha Sparks -- Notes -- Index.