03908oam 2200697I 450 991078374070332120230331005321.01-134-93530-71-134-93531-51-280-13862-997866101386230-203-99129-X10.4324/9780203991299 (CKB)1000000000248257(EBL)240510(OCoLC)475953983(SSID)ssj0000115026(PQKBManifestationID)11138100(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000115026(PQKBWorkID)10011019(PQKB)11727063(MiAaPQ)EBC240510(Au-PeEL)EBL240510(CaPaEBR)ebr10100735(CaONFJC)MIL13862(OCoLC)936912563(OCoLC)61362604(EXLCZ)99100000000024825720180331d1991 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrBritish medicine in an age of reform /edited by Roger French and Andrew WearLondon ;New York :Routledge,1991.1 online resource (267 p.)The Wellcome Institute series in the history of medicineBased on a conference held Sept. 1987 in London and sponsored by the Royal Institution's Centre for the History of Science and Technology.1-138-86817-5 0-415-05622-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 medicine6 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; IndexBritish 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 doctorWellcome Institute series in the history of medicine.MedicineGreat BritainHistory18th centuryCongressesMedicineGreat BritainHistory19th centuryCongressesMedicineHistoryMedicineHistory610.94109033610/.941/09033French R. K(Roger Kenneth)897855Wear A(Andrew),1946-322998Royal Institution Centre for the History of Science and Technology.FlBoTFGFlBoTFGBOOK9910783740703321British medicine in an age of reform3813055UNINA