Medical misadventure in an age of professionalisation, 1780-1890 (eBook)

Alannah Tomkins (Autor)

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2017
288 Seiten
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-1610-9 (ISBN)

Infos

Medical Misadventure considers the doctors whose careers were disrupted or entirely derailed by misfortune, ineptitude, or temptation to crime. Conflicts with colleagues, and threats to medical masculinity, gave rise to extraordinary stories of loss, distress, and occasional recovery.

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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.

Autor

Alannah Tomkins is Professor of History at Keele University

Inhalt

List of Figures
List of Tables
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
2. Financial hardship: bankruptcy, insolvency, and medical charity
3. Thwarted ambition and disappointing careers? Narratives of the Indian Medical Service
4. Accident or on purpose? Neglect, incompetence, and unintentional killing
5. Crimes Against the Body: Causing harm
6. Mad Doctors: lunacy and the asylum
7. Despairing doctors: professional stress and suicide
8. Conclusion
Select Bibliography
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.8.2017
• Zusatzinfo: 15 black & white illustrations,
• Verlagsort: Manchester
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Neuzeit bis 1918
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
• Schlagworte: Asylum • Bankruptcy • crimes against the body • disinterested expertise • incompetence • Indian Medical Service • Insolvency • lunacy • medical masculinity • medical murder • medical prosperity • Medical Registration Act • medical suicides • Neglect • professional stress • questionable practice • Self-Destruction • Sexual assault • unintentional killing
• ISBN-10: 1-5261-1610-3 / 1526116103
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5261-1610-9 / 9781526116109