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Performing Medicine : Medical culture and identity in provincial England, c.1760-1850.
When did medicine become modern? This book takes a fresh look at one of the most important questions in the history of medicine. It explores how the cultures, values and meanings of medicine were transformed across the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries as its practitioners came to subme...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Manchester University Press,
2017.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Performing Medicine: Medical culture and identity in provincial England, c.1760â#x80;#x93;1850; Half Title Page; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. The Doctors Club: politeness, sociability and the culture of medico-gentility; 2. Polite and ornamental knowledge: medicine and the world of letters; 3. The asylum revolution: politics, reform and the demise of medico-gentility; 4. The march of intellect: social progressivism and the transformation of provincial medicine; 5. Guardians of health: cholera, collectivity and the care of the social body.
- 6. True heroes and healers: expertise, authority and the making of medical dominionEpilogue: pasts, present, futures; Select bibliography; Index.