Dickens had a life-long obsession with health and medicine. This landmark new book documents this more fully than ever. It is valuable, too, for studies of public health changes in the 19th-century. / Bleak Health - by a medically-trained literary historian - offers an in-depth study of Dickens¿s life and letters from a medical viewpoint, throwing new light on his world; his medical history; that of his family, and his obsessions.