British medicine in an age of reform / / edited by Roger French and Andrew Wear

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910783740703321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1991
• ISBN: 1-134-93530-7; 1-134-93531-5; 1-280-13862-9; 9786610138623; 0-203-99129-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (267 p.)
• Collana: The Wellcome Institute series in the history of medicine
• Altri autori (Persone): FrenchR. K (Roger Kenneth); WearA <1946-> (Andrew)
• Disciplina: 610.94109033; 610/.941/09033
• Soggetti: Medicine - Great Britain - History - 18th century; Medicine - Great Britain - History - 19th century
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Based on a conference held Sept. 1987 in London and sponsored by the Royal Institution's Centre for the History of Science and Technology.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Tables and figures; Editors and contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Reforming the patient in the age of reform: Thomas Beddoes and medical practice; 2 Private enterprise and public interests: medical education and the Apothecaries' Act, 1780-18251; 3 'Trading assassins' and the licensing of anatomy; 4 The disappearance of the patient's narrative and the invention of hospital medicine; 5 Robert Carswell and William Thomson at the Hôtel-Dieu of Lyons: Scottish views of French medicine; 6 The idea of science in English medicine: the 'decline of science' and the rhetoric of reform, 1815-457 Why were most medical heretics at their most confident around the 1840's? (The other side of mid-Victorian medicine); 8 William Brande and the chemical education of medical students; 9 A scientific profession: medical reform and forensic medicine in British periodicals of the early nineteenth century; 10 ; Religion, respectability and the origins of the modern nurse; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: British Medicine in an Age of Reform, charts the nature and dynamics of the radical changes which occurred between 1780 and 1850 - a great turning point in British medicine. Medicine was reformed just as politics was being reformed. It became a recognizable profession, and at the same time there was an impetus from within to base the subject upon science. By the end of the 1850's medicine had become perceptibly `modern'. Contributions by acknowledged experts cover subjects from Apothecaries' Act of 1815 to froensic medicine, and the effect of scientific medicine on the doctor