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Medical misadventure in an age of professionalisation, 1780-1890 /

This book looks at medical professionalisation from a new perspective, one of failure rather than success. It questions the existing picture of broad and rising medical prosperity across the nineteenth century to consider the men who did not keep up with professionalising trends. It unpicks the life...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Tomkins, Alannah (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2017.
Series:Social histories of medicine.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Series page
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Figures
  • Tables
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • 1 Financial hardship: bankruptcy, insolvency, and medical charity
  • 2 Thwarted ambition and disappointing careers? Narratives of the Indian Medical Service
  • 3 Accident or on purpose? Neglect, incompetence, and unintentional killing
  • 4 Crimes against the body: causing harm
  • 5 Mad doctors: lunacy and the asylum
  • 6 Despairing doctors: professional stress and suicide
  • Conclusion
  • Select bibliography
  • Index.