British medicine in an age of reform
edited by Roger French and Andrew Wear.
Bok Engelsk 1991 · Electronic books.
| Utgitt | London ; New York : : Routledge, , 1991.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (267 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Based on a conference held Sept. 1987 in London and sponsored by the Royal Institution's Centre for the History of Science and Technology.. - 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. - 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
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| ISBN | 0415056225
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