Catching Your Death: Infectious Disease in the Works of Jane Austen
Why did so many characters in classic literature believe rain could make you deathly ill? Today on The Medical Humanities Podcast - Catching Your Death: Infectious Disease in the Work of Jane Austen written and performed by me, Eve Elliot.
This piece received an Honourable Mention in the 2021 Essay Contest held by the Hektoen Institute of Medicine's Journal of Medical Humanities, and was published that same year. Please visit their site to read more fascination stories about medicine and the arts.
Read the full transcript here.
#janeausten #classicliterature #rain #colds
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