| Description |
1 online resource. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Social histories of medicine.
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Social histories of medicine.
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| Summary |
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 stories of men who could not make ends meet or who could not sustain a professional persona of disinterested expertise, either because they could not overcome public accusations of misconduct or because they struggled privately with stress. In doing so it uncovers the trials of the medical marketplace and the pressures of medical masculinity. All professionalising groups risked falling short of rising expectations, but for doctors these expectations were inflected in some occupationally specific ways. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Physicians.
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Physicians. |
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Medicine -- England -- History -- 18th century.
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Medicine. |
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England. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
18th century |
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Medicine -- Wales -- History -- 18th century.
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Wales. |
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Medicine -- England -- History -- 19th century.
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| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
Medicine -- Wales -- History -- 19th century.
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| Chronological Term |
1700-1899 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| ISBN |
9781526116086 (electronic book) |
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1526116081 (electronic book) |
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9781526116079 |
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