Teaching the patient impatience: art, ageing, and the medical consumer

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Teresa Mangum is an associate professor of English at the University of Iowa, USA. Her recent publications in age studies include “Little Women: The Aging Female Character in Nineteenth-Century British Children's Literature”, in Figuring Age: Women, Bodies, Generations (Indiana University Press, 1998); “Literary History as a Tool for Gerontology”, in Handbook of the Humanities and Aging, 2nd edn (Springer, 1999); and “Passages of Life: Growing Old”, in The Blackwell Guide to Victorian Literature and Culture (Blackwell, 1999).