Michael Brown

Performing Medicine

Medical culture and identity in provincial England, c.1760-1850

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The book offers a fresh and distinctive account of the transformation of provincial English medicine from the late eighteenth to the mid nineteenth centuries. Written by one of the leading scholars in the field it demonstrates how the roots of modern medicine can be located in the cultural, political and ideological upheavals of the age of reform.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 409g
• ISBN-13: 9780719095573
• ISBN-10: 0719095573
• Artikelnr.: 40579762

Autorenporträt

Michael Brown is Reader in History at the University of Roehampton

Inhaltsangabe

Figures Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction 1. The Doctor's 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 dominion Epilogue: pasts, present, futures
Bibliography Index