Medical misadventure in an age of professionalisation, 1780–1890 / Alannah Tomkins

• Autore: Tomkins Alannah
• Pubblicazione: Manchester : , : Manchester University Press, , 2017; ©2017
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (304 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 610.69509034
• Soggetto topico: Physicians - history; History, 19th Century; History, 18th Century; Malpractice - history; Physicians; Medicine; MEDICAL / History; MEDICAL - Osteopathy; MEDICAL - Holistic Medicine; MEDICAL - Family & General Practice; MEDICAL - Essays; MEDICAL - Atlases; MEDICAL - Alternative Medicine; HEALTH & FITNESS - Reference; HEALTH & FITNESS - Holism; Medicine - Wales - History - 19th century; Medicine - England - History - 19th century; Medicine - Wales - History - 18th century; Medicine - England - History - 18th century
• Soggetto geografico: England; Wales
• Soggetto genere / forma: History; Electronic books.
• Note generali: Previously issued in print: 2017.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Medical misadventure in an age of professionalisation, 1780–1890
• ISBN: 1-5261-2844-6; 1-5261-1608-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910478942203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Social histories of medicine.