Art, Medicine, and Femininity : Visualising the Morphine Addict in Paris, 1870-1914
Against the backdrop of fin-de-siècle France, Hannah Halliwell presents a meticulous study of feminised visual morphine addict(ion) at the intersection of art, medicine and femininity from 1870 to 1914. The book ambitiously covers many fronts through the prism of art history, ranging across topics as diverse as art, femininity, medicine and gender. It foregrounds the forces of contemporaneous anxi
