04609oam 22010094a 450 991047894220332120211004152541.01-5261-2844-61-5261-1608-1(CKB)4340000000195556(MiAaPQ)EBC4985273(StDuBDS)EDZ0001811286(OCoLC)1002064708(MdBmJHUP)musev2_78431(EXLCZ)99434000000019555620170828d2017 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierMedical misadventure in an age of professionalisation, 1780–1890Alannah TomkinsManchester :Manchester University Press,2017.©2017.1 online resource (304 pages) illustrationsSocial histories of medicine.Previously issued in print: 2017.1-5261-1610-3 1-5261-1607-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Financial hardship: bankruptcy, insolvency, and medical charity -- 2 Thwarted ambition and disappointing careers? Narratives of the Indian Medical Service -- 3 Accident or on purpose? Neglect, incompetence, and unintentional killing -- 4 Crimes against the body: causing harm -- 5 Mad doctors: lunacy and the asylum -- 6 Despairing doctors: professional stress and suicide -- Conclusion -- Select bibliography -- Index.This book looks at medical professionalisation from a new perspective, one of failure rather than success. It questions the existing picture of broad and rising medical prosperity across the nineteenth century to consider the men who did not keep up with professionalising trends. It unpicks the life stories of men who could not make ends meet or who could not sustain a professional persona of disinterested expertise, either because they could not overcome public accusations of misconduct or because they struggled privately with stress. In doing so it uncovers the trials of the medical marketplace and the pressures of medical masculinity. All professionalising groups risked falling short of rising expectations, but for doctors these expectations were inflected in some occupationally specific ways.Social histories of medicine.PhysicianshistoryHistory, 19th CenturyHistory, 18th CenturyMalpracticehistoryPhysiciansfast(OCoLC)fst01062841Medicinefast(OCoLC)fst01014893MEDICAL / HistorybisacshMEDICALOsteopathybisacshMEDICALHolistic MedicinebisacshMEDICALFamily & General PracticebisacshMEDICALEssaysbisacshMEDICALAtlasesbisacshMEDICALAlternative MedicinebisacshHEALTH & FITNESSReferencebisacshHEALTH & FITNESSHolismbisacshMedicineWalesHistory19th centuryMedicineEnglandHistory19th centuryMedicineWalesHistory18th centuryMedicineEnglandHistory18th centuryPhysiciansEnglandWalesWalesfastEnglandfastHistory.Electronic books. Physicianshistory.History, 19th Century.History, 18th Century.Malpracticehistory.Physicians.Medicine.MEDICAL / HistoryMEDICALOsteopathy.MEDICALHolistic Medicine.MEDICALFamily & General Practice.MEDICALEssays.MEDICALAtlases.MEDICALAlternative Medicine.HEALTH & FITNESSReference.HEALTH & FITNESSHolism.MedicineHistoryMedicineHistoryMedicineHistoryMedicineHistoryPhysicians.610.69509034Tomkins Alannah800724MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910478942203321Medical misadventure in an age of professionalisation, 1780–18902565007UNINA