Langstaff : a nineteenth-century medical life / / Jacalyn Duffin
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| Autore: |
Duffin Jacalyn
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| Titolo: |
Langstaff : a nineteenth-century medical life / / Jacalyn Duffin
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| Pubblicazione: | Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 1993 |
| ©1993 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (416 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 610/.92 |
| Soggetto topico: | Medicine - Ontario - Richmond Hill - History - 19th century |
| Physicians - Ontario - Richmond Hill | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Tables, Figures, and Maps -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter One. The Making of a Doctor -- Chapter Two. The Professional and Social World of a Nineteenth-Century Doctor -- Chapter Three. Medical Knowledge in Diagnosis: Physical Signs at the Bedside -- Chapter Four. Medical Knowledge in Therapy: Old Stand-bys, Innovations, and Intangibles -- Chapter Five. Patients and Their Diseases: Morbidity and Mortality in Children and Adults -- Chapter Six. Lunatics, Dreamers, and Drunks -- Chapter Seven. Accidents, Injuries, and Operations: Langstaff's Practice of Surgery -- Chapter Eight. Birthing and Its Problems in Langstaff's Practice of Obstetrics -- Chapter Nine. Therapy through Social Action: Lawyers, Politics, and Public Health -- Conclusion -- Appendix A. A Note on Method -- Appendix B. Professional Associates of James Miles Langstaff -- Appendix C. Langstaff's Personal Library and Charities -- Appendix D. Langstaff's Properties -- Appendix E. Therapies in Langstaff's Daybooks -- Appendix F. Medical Diagnoses in Langstaff's Daybooks -- Notes -- List of Manuscript and Printed Sources -- Select Bibliography -- Illustration Credits -- Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | A unique and readable microhistory of an ordinary physician and his community during a period of revolutionary medical change. Duffin bases her insights on a detailed computer-assisted analysis of 40 years of extant daybooks of James Langstaff (1825-1889). |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Langstaff |
| ISBN: | 1-282-04554-7 |
| 9786612045547 | |
| 1-4426-7638-8 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910456509003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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