Joyce, medicine, and modernity / Vike Martina Plock ; foreword by Sebastian D.G. Knowles.

SeriesThe Florida James Joyce series
Florida James Joyce series. ^A360937
Contents Joyce and modern medicine -- Alcoh alcoho alcoherently: alcoholism and doubling in Counterparts -- The heinous sin of self-pollution: medicine and morals in A portrait of the artist as a young man -- The true purefoy nose: medicine, obstetrics, and the aesthetics of reproduction in Oxen of the sun -- Nerves overstrung: neuroscience and ergography in Eumaeus -- On the hands down: Eugen Sandow and physical culture in Ithaca -- Jack the Ripper and The family physician: gynecology and domestic medicine in Penelope.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2009025058
ISBN9780813034232 (hc : alk. paper)
ISBN081303423X