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Performing medicine : medical culture and identity in provincial England, c.1760-1850 / Michael Brown.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Brown, Michael, 1977-
Contributor:
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McWilliams-Tattersall Fund.
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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