Performing Medicine

Auteur

Michael Brown is Reader in History at the University of Roehampton

Texte du rabat

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.

Contenu

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