Medical Misadventure in an Age of Professionalisation, 1780–1890
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‘Alannah Tomkins’s Medical Misadventure in an Age of Professionalisation, 1780-1890, does justice to the richness and complexity of nineteenth-century medical lives and through collective biography effectively resists the temptation to recapitulate the trials and tribulations of medical history’s ‘great men’. It is a crucial contribution to our knowledge of the affairs - quotidian and catastrophic alike - of the ‘regular’ medical practitioner in Victorian Britain, and considers the making and unmaking of professional boundaries in a turbulent era. […It] is a compelling and painstakingly researched book. Reading it will repay dividends to students and scholars of nineteenth-century medicine.’
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Agnes Arnold-Forster, Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Vol. 74, No. 2 (April 2019)
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. Les mer
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Detaljer
- Forlag
- Manchester University Press
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 304
- ISBN
- 9781526116079
- Utgivelsesår
- 2017
- Format
- 22 x 14 cm
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«
‘Alannah Tomkins’s Medical Misadventure in an Age of Professionalisation, 1780-1890, does justice to the richness and complexity of nineteenth-century medical lives and through collective biography effectively resists the temptation to recapitulate the trials and tribulations of medical history’s ‘great men’. It is a crucial contribution to our knowledge of the affairs - quotidian and catastrophic alike - of the ‘regular’ medical practitioner in Victorian Britain, and considers the making and unmaking of professional boundaries in a turbulent era. […It] is a compelling and painstakingly researched book. Reading it will repay dividends to students and scholars of nineteenth-century medicine.’
» .
Agnes Arnold-Forster, Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Vol. 74, No. 2 (April 2019)