Alannah Tomkins

Medical misadventure in an age of professionalisation, 1780-1890 (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bonnier Books UK
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526116109
• Artikelnr.: 57473468

Autorenporträt

Alannah Tomkins is Professor of History at Keele University

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgements 1. Introduction 2.
Financial hardship: bankruptcy, insolvency, and medical charity 3. Thwarted
ambition and disappointing careers? Narratives of the Indian Medical
Service 4. Accident or on purpose? Neglect, incompetence, and unintentional
killing 5. Crimes Against the Body: Causing harm 6. Mad Doctors: lunacy and
the asylum 7. Despairing doctors: professional stress and suicide 8.
Conclusion Select Bibliography Index