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Poison, Detection and the Victorian Imagination.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Encounters: Cultural Histories SeriesPublisher: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2012Copyright date: ©2012Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (204 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781526158628
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Poison, Detection and the Victorian ImaginationDDC classification:
  • 614.13094109034
LOC classification:
  • HV6555.G7 .B876 2006
Online resources:
Contents:
Poison, detection, and the Victorian imagination -- Half Title Page -- Series editors -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Plates -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Poison and the Victorian imagination -- 2. Disciplining poison -- 3. Plain matters of fact: making and representing toxicological knowledge -- 4. The crime of the age: the case of William Palmer -- 5. The travails of poison hunting -- Index.
Summary: A history of poisoning in the nineteenth century and in particular the case of Dr William Palmer, convicted of murder by poisoning, and how he baffled toxicologists, doctors, detectives and judges.
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Poison, detection, and the Victorian imagination -- Half Title Page -- Series editors -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Plates -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Poison and the Victorian imagination -- 2. Disciplining poison -- 3. Plain matters of fact: making and representing toxicological knowledge -- 4. The crime of the age: the case of William Palmer -- 5. The travails of poison hunting -- Index.

A history of poisoning in the nineteenth century and in particular the case of Dr William Palmer, convicted of murder by poisoning, and how he baffled toxicologists, doctors, detectives and judges.

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