Medical Misadventure in an Age of Professionalisation, 17801890

Informationen zum Autor Alannah Tomkins is Lecturer in History at the University of Keele Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Figures List of TablesAcknowledgements1. Introduction 2. Financial hardship: bankruptcy, insolvency, and medical charity3. Thwarted ambition and disappointing careers? Narratives of the Indian Medical Service4. Accident or on purpose? Neglect, incompetence, and unintentional killing5. Crimes Against the Body: Causing harm6. Mad Doctors: lunacy and the asylum7. Despairing doctors: professional stress and suicide8. Conclusion Select BibliographyIndex

Product details

• Authors: Alannah Tomkins, Tomkins Alannah
• Assisted by: Keir Waddington (Editor)
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2017
• EAN: 9781526116079
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-1607-9
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: Social Histories of Medicine; Social Histories of Medicine M; Social Histories of Medicine; Social Histories of Medicine M
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; History, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, MEDICAL / History, HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century, c 1800 to c 1900, History of Medicine, Social and cultural history