Medical Misadventure in an Age of Professionalisation, 1780–1890

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2017-07-10
Mått:138 x 216 x 17 mm
Vikt:499 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Social Histories of Medicine
Antal sidor:304
Förlag:Manchester University Press
ISBN:9781526116079

Utforska kategorier

Socialhistoria och kulturhistoria inom Historia och arkeologi
Medicinhistoria inom Medicin
Historia inom Historia och arkeologi

Mer om författaren

Alannah Tomkins is Professor of History at Keele University

Recensioner i media

‘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)

Innehållsförteckning

List of Figures List of TablesAcknowledgements1. Introduction 2. Financial hardship: bankruptcy, insolvency, and medical charity3. Thwarted ambition and disappointing careers? Narratives of the Indian Medical Service4. Accident or on purpose? Neglect, incompetence, and unintentional killing5. Crimes Against the Body: Causing harm6. Mad Doctors: lunacy and the asylum7. Despairing doctors: professional stress and suicide8. Conclusion Select BibliographyIndex