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Medicine, Knowledge and Venereal Diseases in England, 1886-1916
Anne R. Hanley
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Description for Medicine, Knowledge and Venereal Diseases in England, 1886-1916
Hardback. Series: Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History. Num Pages: 331 pages, 7 black & white illustrations, 2 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: MBX; MJS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 165 x 218 x 24. Weight in Grams: 560.
This book reveals the ever-present challenges of patient care at the forefront of medical knowledge. Syphilis and gonorrhoea played upon the public imagination in Victorian and Edwardian England, inspiring fascination and fear. Seemingly inextricable from the other great 'social evil', prostitution, these diseases represented contamination, both physical and moral. They infiltrated respectable homes and brought terrible suffering and stigma to those afflicted. Medicine, Knowledge and Venereal Diseases takes us back to an age before penicillin and the NHS, when developments in pathology, symptomology and aetiology were transforming clinical practice. This is the first book to examine systematically how doctors, nurses ... Read more
This book reveals the ever-present challenges of patient care at the forefront of medical knowledge. Syphilis and gonorrhoea played upon the public imagination in Victorian and Edwardian England, inspiring fascination and fear. Seemingly inextricable from the other great 'social evil', prostitution, these diseases represented contamination, both physical and moral. They infiltrated respectable homes and brought terrible suffering and stigma to those afflicted. Medicine, Knowledge and Venereal Diseases takes us back to an age before penicillin and the NHS, when developments in pathology, symptomology and aetiology were transforming clinical practice. This is the first book to examine systematically how doctors, nurses ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Series
Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History
Condition
New
Weight
559g
Number of Pages
318
Place of Publication
Cham, Switzerland
ISBN
9783319324548
SKU
V9783319324548
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99-15
About Anne R. Hanley
Anne Hanley is a Junior Research Fellow at the University of Oxford. After completing her PhD in History at the University of Cambridge, she worked with the Centre for History and Philosophy of Science and the Museum of the History of Science, Technology and Medicine at the University of Leeds. Her research interests are in the social history of medicine ... Read more
Reviews for Medicine, Knowledge and Venereal Diseases in England, 1886-1916
This book considers the societal, legislative, scientific and medical changes that influenced our understanding of, and responses to, syphilis and gonorrhoea. ... it richly illustrates the problems faced by healthcare professionals and contains a wealth of information of interest to the more general reader. (Tim Mason, BSHM British Society for the History of Medicine, bshm.org.uk, July, 2017)