English · Boston College
Who is a "mad" or "strange" doctor? What makes us see some doctors as professional or expert, while others are relegated to the realms of pseudoscience, or quackery? How might we engage with the figure of the strange doctor in the context of literature and media about doctors, nurses, care-workers, and medicine? In this course, we will look closely at fictional and historical doctors, nurses, and medical practitioners in nineteenth-century British and imperial literature to critically examine the strange doctor alongside representations of health and medicine. By bringing chara
