Plock (English literature, Northumbria U.) explores Irish writer James Joyce's (1882-1941) obsession with health, debility, and medicine, and the appearance of such concerns throughout his
work. Among her topics are modern medicine, alcoholism and doubling in "Counterparts," medicine and morals in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, obstetrics and the aesthetics of
reproduction in "Oxen of the Sun," Eugen Sandow and physical culture in "Ithaca," and gynecology and domestic medicine in "Penelope." Some of the chapters have been published as journal
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