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British medicine in an age of reform /
Between 1780 and 1850 was one of the great turning points in British medicine. The authors chart the nature and dynamics of the radical changes which occurred in this period.
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
1991.
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| Series: | Wellcome Institute series in the history of medicine.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Reforming the patient in the age of reform : Thomas Beddoes and medical practice / Roy Porter
- Private enterprise and public interests : medical education and the Apothecaries' Act, 1780-1825 / Susan C. Lawrence
- 'Trading assassins' and the licensing of anatomy / Ruth Richardson
- The disappearance of the patient's narrative and the invention of hospital medicine / Mary E. Fissell
- Robert Carswell and William Thomson at the Hôtel-Dieu of Lyons : Scottish views of French medicine / Stephen Jacyna
- The idea of science in English medicine : the 'decline of science' and the rhetoric of reform, 1815-45 / John Harley Warner
- Why were most medical heretics at their most confident around the 1840s? : (The other side of mid-Victorian medicine) / Logie Barrow.
- William Brande and the chemical education of medical students / Elizabeth Haigh
- A scientific profession : medical reform and forensic medicine in British periodicals of the early nineteenth century / Catherine Crawford
- Religion, respectability and the origins of the modern nurse / Perry Williams.