Performing medicine
Subtitle: medical culture and identity in provincial England, c.1760-1850
By: Michael Brown
Publisher: Manchester University Press; Distributed in the United States by Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Manchester; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9780719077975
Subjects: Social Medicine; History, 18th Century; Social medicine; Medicine; History, 19th Century; Medical care; History of Medicine; History
Description: "When did medicine become modern? This book takes a fresh look at one of the most important questions in the history of medicine. It explores how the cultures, values and meanings of medicine were transformed across the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries as its practitioners came to submerge their local identities as urbane and learned gentlemen into the ideal of a nationwide and scientifically-based medical profession"--Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.