Medical Misadventure in an Age of Professionalisation, 1780-1890 (Hardcover)

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. -- .

General

Imprint:	Manchester University Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Social Histories of Medicine
Release date:	July 2017
First published:	2017
Authors:	Alannah Tomkins
Dimensions:	216 x 138 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	304
ISBN-13:	978-1-5261-1607-9
Categories:	Books > Medicine > General issues > History of medicine Books > Humanities > History > World history > 1750 to 1900 Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > History > World history > 1750 to 1900
LSN:	1-5261-1607-3
Barcode:	9781526116079

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