Reading for Health: Medical Narratives and the Nineteenth-Century Novel (rev.)

Authors

  • Natasha Abrahams

Abstract

  

Author Biography

  • Natasha Abrahams

    Natasha Abrahams is a doctoral student at Monash University in the School of Social Sciences. Her research takes place in the intersection of gender, science and the mass media. Her dissertation argues that the sexual division of labour within the household is promoted by news reporting of scientific findings pertaining to sex differences.

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Published

2019-06-09

Issue

Vol. 22 No. 1 (2018)

Section

Book Reviews

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How to Cite

Abrahams, N. (2019). Reading for Health: Medical Narratives and the Nineteenth-Century Novel (rev.). Australasian Journal of Victorian Studies, 22(1), 115-17. https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/AJVS/article/view/13153