Medical Identities and Print Culture, 1830s–1910s

Alison Moulds (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

XIV, 288 Seiten

2021 | 1st ed. 2021
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-74344-4 (ISBN)

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This book examines how the medical profession engaged with print and literary culture to shape its identities between the 1830s and 1910s in Britain and its empire. Moving away from a focus on medical education and professional appointments, the book reorients attention to how medical self-fashioning interacted with other axes of identity, including age, gender, race, and the spaces of practice. Drawing on medical journals and fiction, as well as professional advice guides and popular periodicals, this volume considers how images of medical practice and professionalism were formed in the cultural and medical imagination. Alison Moulds uncovers how medical professionals were involved in textual production and consumption as editors, contributors, correspondents, readers, authors, and reviewers. Ultimately, this book opens up new perspectives on the relationship between literature and medicine, revealing how the profession engaged with a range of textual practices to build communities, air grievances, and augment its cultural authority and status in public life.

lt;b>Alison Moulds is a cultural historian and literary scholar. She completed her DPhil at the University of Oxford, UK, as part of the AHRC-funded Constructing Scientific Communities project. Moulds then worked on Diseases of Modern Life (ERC-funded, University of Oxford, UK) and Surgery & Emotion (Wellcome Trust-funded, University of Roehampton, UK). She now has a career in health policy.

1. Introduction.- 2. The Young Practitioner.- 3. The Metropolitan Practitioner.- 4. The Country Practitioner.- 5. The Medical Woman.- 6. The Colonial Practitioner in British India.- 7. Conclusion.

"This well-researched text will be an asset to those researching the expansion of the medical Profession ... . This comprehensive and meticulously researched book will provide an excellent reference guide for academic research, at the same time it is a book that the general reader with an interest in the social and cultural history of medicine will find accessible and absorbing." (Kathleen Beal, BAVS Newsletter, Vol. 23 (1), 2023)

“This well-researched text will be an asset to those researching the expansion of the medical Profession … . This comprehensive and meticulously researched book will provide an excellent reference guide for academic research, at the same time it is a book that the general reader with an interest in the social and cultural history of medicine will find accessible and absorbing.” (Kathleen Beal, BAVS Newsletter, Vol. 23 (1), 2023)

Erscheinungsdatum	13.08.2021
Reihe/Serie	Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
Zusatzinfo	XIV, 288 p.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	524 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
Schlagworte	advice manuals medicine • Medical Humanities • medical journals • medical practioners nineteenth century • medical press • Medical profession • Print Culture
ISBN-10	3-030-74344-6 / 3030743446
ISBN-13	978-3-030-74344-4 / 9783030743444
Zustand	Neuware