British medicine in an age of reform / edited by Roger French and Andrew Wear.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

French, R. K. (Roger Kenneth)

Wear, A. (Andrew), 1946-

Royal Institution Centre for the History of Science and Technology.

Series:

Wellcome Institute series in the history of medicine.

The Wellcome Institute series in the history of medicine

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medicine--Great Britain--History--18th century--Congresses.

Medicine.

Medicine--Great Britain--History--19th century--Congresses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (267 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1991.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

British Medicine in an Age of Reform, charts the nature and dynamics of the radical changes which occurred between 1780 and 1850 - a great turning point in British medicine. Medicine was reformed just as politics was being reformed. It became a recognizable profession, and at the same time there was an impetus from within to base the subject upon science. By the end of the 1850's medicine had become perceptibly `modern'. Contributions by acknowledged experts cover subjects from Apothecaries' Act of 1815 to froensic medicine, and the effect of scientific medicine on the doctor

Contents:

Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Tables and figures; Editors and contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Reforming the patient in the age of reform: Thomas Beddoes and medical practice; 2 Private enterprise and public interests: medical education and the Apothecaries' Act, 1780-18251; 3 'Trading assassins' and the licensing of anatomy; 4 The disappearance of the patient's narrative and the invention of hospital medicine; 5 Robert Carswell and William Thomson at the Hôtel-Dieu of Lyons: Scottish views of French medicine

6 The idea of science in English medicine: the 'decline of science' and the rhetoric of reform, 1815-457 Why were most medical heretics at their most confident around the 1840's? (The other side of mid-Victorian medicine); 8 William Brande and the chemical education of medical students; 9 A scientific profession: medical reform and forensic medicine in British periodicals of the early nineteenth century; 10 Religion, respectability and the origins of the modern nurse; Index

Notes:

Based on a conference held Sept. 1987 in London and sponsored by the Royal Institution's Centre for the History of Science and Technology.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-134-93530-7

1-134-93531-5

1-280-13862-9

9786610138623

0-203-99129-X

9780203991299

OCLC:

475953983