Medicine in the Making of Modern Britain, 1700-1920
Medicine in the Making of Modern Britain, 1700-1920

Author: Christopher Lawrence

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2006-06-19

Total Pages: 173

ISBN-13: 1134873840

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Christopher 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

Health and Girlhood in Britain, 1874-1920
Health and Girlhood in Britain, 1874-1920

Author: H. Marland

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2013-07-12

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13: 1137328142

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This first major study of girls' health in modern Britain explores how debates and advice on healthy girlhood shaped ideas about the lives of young women from the 1870s to the 1920s, as theories concerning the biological limitations of female adolescence were challenged and girls moved into new arenas in the workplace, sport and recreation.

British Military and Naval Medicine, 1600-1830
British Military and Naval Medicine, 1600-1830

Author:

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2015-06-29

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 9401204934

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Standing armies and navies brought with them military medical establishments, shifting the focus of disease management from individuals to groups. Prevention, discipline, and surveillance produced results, and career opportunities for physicians and surgeons. All these developments had an impact on medicine and society, and were in turn influenced by them. The essays within examine these phenomena, exploring the imperial context, nursing and medicine in Britain, naval medicine, as well as the relationship between medicine, the state and society. British Military and Naval Medicine challenges the notion that military medicine was, in all respects, ‘a good thing’. The so-called monopoly of military medicine and the authoritarian structures within the military were complex and, at times, successfully contested. Sometimes changes were imposed that cannot be characterised as improvements. British Military and Naval Medicine also points to opportunities for further research in this exciting field of study.

Dying for Victorian Medicine
Dying for Victorian Medicine

Author: E. Hurren

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2011-12-12

Total Pages: 396

ISBN-13: 023035565X

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The first book to provide a detailed analysis of the body-trafficking networks of the dead poor that underpinned the expansion of medical education from Victorian times. With an even-handed approach to the business of anatomy, Hurren uses remarkable case histories which still echo a vibrant body-business on the internet today in a biomedical age.

Literature and Medicine in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical Press
Literature and Medicine in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical Press

Author: Megan Coyer

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2016-12-05

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 1474405622

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In the early nineteenth century, Edinburgh was the leading centre of medical education and research in Britain. It also laid claim to a thriving periodical culture. Literature and Medicine in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical Press investigates how Romantic periodicals cultivated innovative literary forms, ideologies and discourses that reflected and shaped medical culture in the nineteenth century. It examines several medically-trained contributors to Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, the most influential literary periodical of the time, and draws upon extensive archival and bibliographical research to reclaim these previously neglected medico-literary figures. Situating their work in relation to developments in medical and periodical culture, Megan Coyer's book advances our understanding of how the nineteenth-century periodical press cross-fertilised medical and literary ideas.

The making of British bioethics
The making of British bioethics

Author: Duncan Wilson

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2015-11-01

Total Pages: 317

ISBN-13: 1526102838

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This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. The making of British bioethics provides the first in-depth study of how philosophers, lawyers and other ‘outsiders’ came to play a major role in discussing and helping to regulate issues that used to be left to doctors and scientists. It details how British bioethics emerged thanks to a dynamic interplay between sociopolitical concerns and the aims of specific professional groups and individuals who helped create the demand for outside involvement and transformed themselves into influential ‘ethics experts’. Highlighting this interplay helps us appreciate how issues such as embryo research and assisted dying became high-profile ‘bioethical’ concerns in the late twentieth century, and why different groups now play a critical role in developing regulatory standards and leading public debates. The book draws on a wide range of original sources and will be of interest to historians of medicine and science, general historians and bioethicists.

A Companion to Nineteenth-Century Britain
A Companion to Nineteenth-Century Britain

Author: Chris Williams

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2006-10-20

Total Pages: 629

ISBN-13: 1405156791

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A Companion to Nineteenth-Century Britain presents 33 essays by expert scholars on all the major aspects of the political, social, economic and cultural history of Britain during the late Georgian and Victorian eras. Truly British, rather than English, in scope. Pays attention to the experiences of women as well as of men. Illustrated with maps and charts. Includes guides to further reading.

Liberating Medicine, 1720–1835
Liberating Medicine, 1720–1835

Author: Tristanne Connolly

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-10-06

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13: 1317316126

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During the 18th century medicine became an autonomous discipline and practice. Surgeons justified themselves as skilled practitioners and set themselves apart from the unspecialized, hack barber-surgeons of early modernity. This title presents 17 essays on the relationship between medicine and literature during the Enlightenment.

Innovating Professional Services
Innovating Professional Services

Author: Alastair Ross

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-03-09

Total Pages: 374

ISBN-13: 1317116550

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Innovating Professional Services provides a practical and detailed guide for change agents and leaders in professional service firms who are seeking to transform their firm’s performance through innovation. Focusing on the professional services sector, the book highlights process innovation - the re-engineering of services and internal support processes to reduce cost and increase value to clients. Detailed techniques such as the use of lean, process mapping, waste identification, service experience mapping and value profiling are explained, drawing on the author's extensive experience in working with leading law, business service and consulting firms to create measurable improvements. With case studies to illuminate the challenges of driving major improvement through innovation, this book is valuable reading for leaders and change agents in law firms, accountants, consultants, architects, financial services and engineering services.

Modernity, Medicine and Health
Modernity, Medicine and Health

Author: Paul Higgs

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2005-08-19

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 1134824297

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An opportunity for medical sociology to establish a voice in the key debates in social science today: modernity, postmodernity, structuralism and poststructuralism. Essential reading for students of the sociology of medicine, health and illness.