Book contents
- Dracula for Doctors
- Dracula for Doctors
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Body and Mind
- Chapter 2 Medico-Gothic
- Chapter 3 Stoker Medical Circles
- Chapter 4 Asylum Doctors
- Chapter 5 The Gothic Asylum
- Chapter 6 Renfield, The Pet Lunatic
- Chapter 7 The Other Patients
- Chapter 8 Diagnosing Dracula
- Chapter 9 Dread Disease and the Asylum
- Chapter 10 Occult Blood
- Chapter 11 Holes in the Skull
- Chapter 12 Dead, Alive or Undead
- Chapter 13 Therapeutic Armamentarium
- Chapter 14 Compelling Eyes
- Chapter 15 Beastliness
- Chapter 16 Vivisection or Animal Torture?
- Chapter 17 Demons and Doctors
- Chapter 18 Scientists and the Supernatural
- Chapter 19 And Dracula for Dentists …
- Chapter 20 Sex and Death
- Index
Chapter 1 - Body and Mind
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 October 2019
- Dracula for Doctors
- Dracula for Doctors
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Body and Mind
- Chapter 2 Medico-Gothic
- Chapter 3 Stoker Medical Circles
- Chapter 4 Asylum Doctors
- Chapter 5 The Gothic Asylum
- Chapter 6 Renfield, The Pet Lunatic
- Chapter 7 The Other Patients
- Chapter 8 Diagnosing Dracula
- Chapter 9 Dread Disease and the Asylum
- Chapter 10 Occult Blood
- Chapter 11 Holes in the Skull
- Chapter 12 Dead, Alive or Undead
- Chapter 13 Therapeutic Armamentarium
- Chapter 14 Compelling Eyes
- Chapter 15 Beastliness
- Chapter 16 Vivisection or Animal Torture?
- Chapter 17 Demons and Doctors
- Chapter 18 Scientists and the Supernatural
- Chapter 19 And Dracula for Dentists …
- Chapter 20 Sex and Death
- Index
Summary
In the novel Dracula by Bram Stoker, published in 1897, two of the main characters are medical practitioners specialising in the mind: Dr John Seward and Professor Abraham Van Helsing. As often in fiction this allows two doctors to disagree with each other, but less usually, both here collaborate on the side of ‘good’, determined to exterminate the vampire Count Dracula, and by physical methods.
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Dracula for DoctorsMedical Facts and Gothic Fantasies, pp. 1 - 2Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019