Book ID: CBB945531390

Medical Misadventure in an Age of Professionalisation, 1780-1890 (2017)

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Tomkins, Alannah (Author)


Manchester University Press


Publication Date: 2017
Physical Details: 304 pp.
Language: English

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.

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Review Alison Moulds (2019) Review of "Medical Misadventure in an Age of Professionalisation, 1780-1890". Social History of Medicine (pp. 194-196). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Robinson, Katie
Wilkinson, Miles
Dunne, Bríd
Helm, David P
Barrière, Jean-Paul
Shalvey, Aisling
Concepts
Physicians; doctors
Medicine
Professions and professionalization
Medicine and society
Medicine and ethics
Discipline formation
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
20th century, early
20th century
Renaissance
Ancient
Places
United States
France
England
Americas
Germany
Europe
Institutions
American Medical Association
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