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Langstaff : A Nineteenth-Century Medical Life /
A unique and readable microhistory of an ordinary physician and his community during a period of revolutionary medical change. Duffin bases her insights on a detailed computer-assisted analysis of 40 years of extant daybooks of James Langstaff (1825-1889).
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto :
University of Toronto Press,
[2016]
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| Colección: | Heritage
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Tables, Figures, and Maps
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter One. The Making of a Doctor
- Chapter Two. The Professional and Social World of a Nineteenth-Century Doctor
- Chapter Three. Medical Knowledge in Diagnosis: Physical Signs at the Bedside
- Chapter Four. Medical Knowledge in Therapy: Old Stand-bys, Innovations, and Intangibles
- Chapter Five. Patients and Their Diseases: Morbidity and Mortality in Children and Adults
- Chapter Six. Lunatics, Dreamers, and Drunks
- Chapter Seven. Accidents, Injuries, and Operations: Langstaff's Practice of Surgery
- Chapter Eight. Birthing and Its Problems in Langstaff's Practice of Obstetrics
- Chapter Nine. Therapy through Social Action: Lawyers, Politics, and Public Health
- Conclusion
- Appendix A. A Note on Method
- Appendix B. Professional Associates of James Miles Langstaff
- Appendix C. Langstaff's Personal Library and Charities
- Appendix D. Langstaff's Properties
- Appendix E. Therapies in Langstaff's Daybooks
- Appendix F. Medical Diagnoses in Langstaff's Daybooks
- Notes
- List of Manuscript and Printed Sources
- Select Bibliography
- Illustration Credits
- Index