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Medical Misadventure in an Age of Professionalisation, 1780-1890
Alannah Tomkins
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Description for Medical Misadventure in an Age of Professionalisation, 1780-1890
Hardback. Medical Misadventure considers the doctors whose careers were disrupted or entirely derailed by misfortune, ineptitude, or temptation to crime. Conflicts with colleagues, and threats to medical masculinity, gave rise to extraordinary stories of loss, distress, and occasional recovery. Series: Social Histories of Medicine. Num Pages: 304 pages, 15 black & white illustrations,. BIC Classification: HBLL; HBTB; MBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 138. .
This book looks at medical professionalisation from a new perspective, one of failure rather than success. It questions the existing picture of broad and rising medical prosperity across the nineteenth century to consider the men who did not keep up with professionalising trends. It unpicks the life stories of men who could not make ends meet or who could not sustain a professional persona of disinterested expertise, either because they could not overcome public accusations of misconduct or because they struggled privately with stress. In doing so it uncovers the trials of the medical marketplace and ... Read more
This book looks at medical professionalisation from a new perspective, one of failure rather than success. It questions the existing picture of broad and rising medical prosperity across the nineteenth century to consider the men who did not keep up with professionalising trends. It unpicks the life stories of men who could not make ends meet or who could not sustain a professional persona of disinterested expertise, either because they could not overcome public accusations of misconduct or because they struggled privately with stress. In doing so it uncovers the trials of the medical marketplace and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Series
Social Histories of Medicine
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781526116079
SKU
V9781526116079
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About Alannah Tomkins
Alannah Tomkins is Professor of History at Keele University -- .
Reviews for Medical Misadventure in an Age of Professionalisation, 1780-1890
'Alannah Tomkins's Medical Misadventure in an Age of Professionalisation, 1780-1890, does justice to the richness and complexity of nineteenth-century medical lives and through collective biography effectively resists the temptation to recapitulate the trials and tribulations of medical history's 'great men'. It is a crucial contribution to our knowledge of the affairs - quotidian and catastrophic alike - of the 'regular' ... Read more