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Performing medicine : medical culture and identity in provincial England, c.1760-1850 / Michael Brown.
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brown, Michael, 1977-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medicine--England--History--18th century.
- Medicine.
- Medicine--England--History--19th century.
- Medical care--England--History--18th century.
- Medical care.
- Medical care--England--History--19th century.
- Social medicine--England--History--18th century.
- Social medicine.
- Social medicine--England--History--19th century.
- Medical care--Political aspects--England--History--18th century.
- Medical care--Political aspects--England--History--19th century.
- Social Medicine--history.
- Medical care--Political aspects.
- History.
- England.
- History of Medicine.
- History, 18th Century.
- History, 19th Century.
- Medical Subjects:
- Social Medicine--history.
- England.
- History of Medicine.
- History, 18th Century.
- History, 19th Century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 254 pages) : portraits
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed in the United States by Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- The Doctor's Club: politeness, sociability and the culture of medico-gentility
- Polite and ornamental knowledge: medicine and the world of letters
- The asylum revolution: politics, reform and the demise of medico-gentility
- The march of intellect: social progressivism and the transformation of provincial medicine
- Guardians of health: cholera, collectivity and the care of the social body
- True heroes and healers: expertise, authority and the making of medical dominion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the McWilliams-Tattersall Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781526129710
- 152612971X
- Publisher Number:
- 99984980628
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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