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UNINA9910829032403321 |
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Titolo |
British medicine in an age of reform / / edited by Roger French and Andrew Wear |
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London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1991 |
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ISBN |
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1-134-93530-7 |
1-134-93531-5 |
1-280-13862-9 |
9786610138623 |
0-203-99129-X |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (267 p.) |
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Collana |
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The Wellcome Institute series in the history of medicine |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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FrenchR. K (Roger Kenneth) |
WearA <1946-> (Andrew) |
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Disciplina |
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610.94109033 |
610/.941/09033 |
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Soggetti |
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Medicine - Great Britain - History - 18th century |
Medicine - Great Britain - History - 19th century |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Based on a conference held Sept. 1987 in London and sponsored by the Royal Institution's Centre for the History of Science and Technology. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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