Performing Medicine - Medical Culture and Identity in Provincial England, C.17601850

The book offers a fresh and distinctive account of the transformation of provincial English medicine from the late eighteenth to the mid nineteenth centuries. Written by one of the leading scholars in the field it demonstrates how the roots of modern medicine can be located in the cultural, political and ideological upheavals of the age of reform.

List of contents

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

About the author

Michael Brown is Senior Lecturer in History at Roehampton University

Product details

• Authors: Michael Brown
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2014
• EAN: 9780719095573
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-9557-3
• No. of pages: 268
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General