Article ID: CBB001213888

Lister's Relationship with Patients: “A Successful Case” (2013)

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Carpenter, Mary Wilson (Author)


Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science
Volume: 67, no. 3
Issue: 3
Pages: 231-244


Publication Date: 2013
Edition Details: Part of a special issue,“Learning from Lister”
Language: English

An important aspect of Joseph Lister's work that has received relatively little attention is his relationship with patients. However, a manuscript written by one of his patients, Margaret Mathewson's `A Sketch of Eight Months a patient, in the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, A.D. 1877', provides detail about the surgeon as seen `from below'---that is, by a charity patient. Although excerpts from Mathewson's `Sketch' have previously been published, an earlier version of the `Sketch' has only recently been identified as such. That earlier version represents Lister not only as actively concerned with patient education, but also as strongly supportive of patients' rights, encouraging ward patients to report maltreatment at the hands of the staff.

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Authors & Contributors
Crowther, M. Anne
Richardson, Ruth Drucilla
Siano, Silvia
Jane Coutts
Worboys, Michael
Schlich, Thomas
Concepts
Medicine
Patients
Clinical medicine
Surgery
Medical education and teaching
Physicians; doctors
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
20th century, late
20th century, early
21st century
18th century
Places
Great Britain
England
London (England)
Scotland
United States
Japan
Institutions
University College, London
Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Md.)
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