title: "Shake me up, Judy!": on Dickens, medicine and spinal cord disorders.
abstract: Charles Dickens' ( 1812- 1870) works, were for a long time, a solid background for  social, historical,  psychological, literary and medical 19th century studies. In this article , some light is casted on Dickens,  medicine and  disabled  people in his  works, especially on  paraplegics.
authors.affiliation: Rehabilitation Medicine at Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel. aohry@bezeqint.net
authors.forename: Avi
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ohry
mesh_terms: D006233:Persons with Disabilities / Q000266:history*; D004739:England; D049672:History, 19th Century; D006801:Humans; D008093:Literature, Modern; D008297:Male; D008513:Medicine in Literature; D010264:Paraplegia / Q000266:history*; D012919:Social Behavior / Q000266:history