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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brown, Michael, 1977- author.

Series:

Manchester History of Medicine

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.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 254 pages) : illustrations (black and white), digital, PDF file(s)

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This text offers a fresh and distinctive account of the transformation of provincial English medicine from the late 18th to the mid-19th centuries. It demonstrates how the roots of modern medicine can be located in the cultural, political and ideological upheavals of the age of reform.

Contents:

Figures

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Introduction

1. The Doctor’s Club: politeness, sociability and the culture of medico-gentility

2. Polite and ornamental knowledge: medicine and the world of letters

3. The asylum revolution: politics, reform and the demise of medico-gentility

4. The march of intellect: social progressivism and the transformation of provincial medicine

5. Guardians of health: cholera, collectivity and the care of the social body

6. True heroes and healers: expertise, authority and the making of medical dominion

Epilogue: pasts, present, futures

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2011.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on April 22, 2026).

ISBN:

1-5261-2971-X

OCLC:

1029661298