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Remembering Dr Sloane: Masculinity and the Making of an Eighteenth-Century Physician (2019)

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By the 1720s Sir Hans Sloane was at the centre of London's eighteenth-century medical and scientific world; he was a royal physician, President of the Royal Society and President of the Royal College of Physicians. This article examines Sloane's use of self-fashioning early in his career, which was key to his later successes. Sloane's career-building offers an opportunity to consider the role of gender in men's medical and scientific activities. This article argues that Sloane used existing concepts of ideal manhood – self-management, independence and polite sociability – to establish his medical practice and scientific networks.

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Article Darren N. Wagner; Joanna Wharton (2019) The Sexes and the Sciences. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies (pp. 399-413). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
O'Connor, Cailin
Sagal, Anna Katerina
Sarah Maria Schönbauer
Jarvis, C. E.
Werrett, Simon
Tanner, Ariane
Concepts
Scientific communities; interprofessional relations
Communication within scientific contexts
Science and gender
Career development
Science and society
Women in science
Time Periods
18th century
19th century
17th century
20th century, early
Early modern
16th century
Places
France
Great Britain
Europe
England
United States
Netherlands
Institutions
The Pathological Society of Great Britain and Ireland
Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine, London
St. Bartholomew's Hospital (London)
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