British Medicine in an Age of Reform
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Publisher: Routledge
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Total Pages: 267
ISBN-13: 1134935315
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Rethinking the Age of Reform
Author: Arthur Burns
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2003-11-13
Total Pages: 365
ISBN-13: 0521823943
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book takes a look at the 'age of reform', from 1780 when reform became a common object of aspiration, to the 1830s - the era of the 'Reform Ministry' and of the Great Reform Act of 1832 - and beyond, when such aspirations were realized more frequently. It pays close attention to what contemporaries termed 'reform', identifying two strands, institutional and moral, which interacted in complex ways. Particular reforming initiatives singled out for attention include those targeting parliament, government, the law, the Church, medicine, slavery, regimens of self-care, opera, theatre, and art institutions, while later chapters situate British reform in its imperial and European contexts. An extended introduction provides a point of entry to the history and historiography of the period. The book will therefore stimulate fresh thinking about this formative period of British history.
Public Health and Social Justice in the Age of Chadwick
Author: Christopher Hamlin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1998-02-13
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9780521583633
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA revisionist account of the story of the foundations of public health in industrial revolution Britain.
Charles Bell and the Anatomy of Reform
Author: Carin Berkowitz
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2015-11-17
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 022628042X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSir Charles Bell (1774–1842) was a medical reformer in a great age of reform—an occasional and reluctant vivisectionist, a theistic popularizer of natural science, a Fellow of the Royal Society, a surgeon, an artist, and a teacher. He was among the last of a generation of medical men who strove to fashion a particularly British science of medicine; who formed their careers, their research, and their publications through the private classrooms of nineteenth-century London; and whose politics were shaped by the exigencies of developing a living through patronage in a time when careers in medical science simply did not exist. A decade after Bell’s death, that world was gone, replaced by professionalism, standardized education, and regular career paths. In Charles Bell and the Anatomy of Reform, Carin Berkowitz takes readers into Bell’s world, helping us understand the life of medicine before the modern separation of classroom, laboratory, and clinic. Through Bell’s story, we witness the age when modern medical science, with its practical universities, set curricula, and medical professionals, was born.
Medicine in the Making of Modern Britain, 1700-1920
Author: Christopher Lawrence
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006-06-19
Total Pages: 173
ISBN-13: 1134873840
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChristopher Lawrence's critical overview of medicine's place in the development of modern Britain examines the significance of the clinical encounter in contemporary society. * first short synoptic study of its kind * breaks new ground by bringing together specialised scholarship into a broad argument * shows how the medical profession created a very specific role for itself * relates medicine to general social policy
The History of Medical Education in Britain
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2020-01-29
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9004418393
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProfessional education forms a key element in the transmission of medical learning and skills, in occupational solidarity and in creating and recreating the very image of the practitioner. Yet the history of British medical education has hitherto been surprisingly neglected. Building upon papers contributed to two conferences on the history of medical education in the early 1990s, this volume presents new research and original synthesis on key aspects of medical instruction, theoretical and practical, from early medieval times into the present century. Academic and practical aspects are equally examined, and balanced attention is given to different sites of instruction, be it the university or the hospital. The crucial role of education in medical qualifications and professional licensing is also examined as is the part it has played in the regulation of the entry of women to the profession. Contributors are Juanita Burnby, W.F. Bynum, Laurence M. Geary, Faye Getz, Johanna Geyer-Kordesch, S.W.F. Holloway, Stephen Jacyna, Peter Murray Jones, Helen King, Susan C. Lawrence, Irvine Loudon, Margaret Pelling, Godelieve Van Heteren, and John Harley Warner.
Performing Medicine
Author: Michael Brown
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2018-02-28
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 152612971X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen did medicine become modern? This book takes a fresh look at one of the most important questions in the history of medicine. It explores how the cultures, values and meanings of medicine were transformed across the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries as its practitioners came to submerge their local identities as urbane and learned gentlemen into the ideal of a nationwide and scientifically-based medical profession. Moving beyond traditional accounts of professionalization, it demonstrates how visions of what medicine was and might be were shaped by wider social and political forces, from the eighteenth-century values of civic gentility to the radical and socially progressive ideologies of the age of reform. Focusing on the provincial English city of York, it draws on a rich and wide-ranging archival record, including letters, diaries, newspapers and portraits, to reveal how these changes took place at the level of everyday practice, experience and representation.
Emotions and Surgery in Britain, 1793–1912
Author: Michael Brown
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2022-10-20
Total Pages: 325
ISBN-13: 1108834841
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn innovative analytical account of the changing place of emotions in British surgery in the long nineteenth century.
A Modern History of the Stomach
Author: Ian Miller
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-10-06
Total Pages: 231
ISBN-13: 1317322479
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the first exploration of the relationship between the abdomen and British society between 1800 and 1950. Miller demonstrates how the framework of ideas established in medicine related to gastric illness often reflected wider social issues including industrialization and the impact of wartime anxiety upon the inner body.
Disease, Medicine and Society in England, 1550-1860
Author: Roy Porter
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1995-09-14
Total Pages: 112
ISBN-13: 9780521557917
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn his short but authoritative study, Roy Porter examines the impact of disease upon the English and their responses to it before the widespread availability and public provision of medical care. Professor Porter incorporates into the revised second edition new perspectives offered by recent research into provincial medical history, the history of childbirth, and women's studies in the social history of medicine. He begins by sketching a picture of the threats posed by disease to population levels and social continuity from Tudor times to the Industrial Revolution, going on to consider the nature and development of the medical profession, attitudes to doctors and disease, and the growing commitment of the state to public health. Drawing together a wide range of often fragmentary material, and providing a detailed annotated bibliography, this book is an important guide to the history of medicine and to English social history.
