Medical Identities and Print Culture, 1830s–1910s

Alison Moulds is a cultural historian and literary scholar. She completed her DPhil at the University of Oxford, UK, as part of the AHRC-funded Constructing Scientific Communities project. Moulds then worked on Diseases of Modern Life (ERC-funded, University of Oxford, UK) and Surgery & Emotion (Wellcome Trust-funded, University of Roehampton, UK). She now has a career in health policy.

“Alison Moulds’s Medical Identities and Print Culture, 1830s–1910s is an excellent piece of scholarship that argues convincingly for the material effects of creative literature in tandem with other forms of writing on medical identities and practices. … these monographs are a highly instructive and enjoyable contribution to our understanding of the period, whether taken individually or—better yet—collectively. ” (Clark Lawlor, Victorian Studies, Vol. 65 (4), 2023)“This well-researched text will be an asset to those researching the expansion of the medical Profession … . This comprehensive and meticulously researched book will provide an excellent reference guide for academic research, at the same time it is a book that the general reader with an interest in the social and cultural history of medicine will find accessible and absorbing.” (Kathleen Beal, BAVS Newsletter, Vol. 23 (1), 2023)

• 1. Introduction.- 2. The Young Practitioner.- 3. The Metropolitan Practitioner.- 4. The Country Practitioner.- 5. The Medical Woman.- 6. The Colonial Practitioner in British India.- 7. Conclusion.