Langstaff: A Nineteenth-Century Medical Life

by Jacalyn Duffin

Book Overview

A unique and readable microhistory of an ordinary physician and his community during a period of revolutionary medical change. Duffin bases her insights on a detailed computer-assisted analysis of 40 years of extant daybooks of James Langstaff (1825-1889).

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802074146
• ISBN13: 9780802074140
• Release Date: October 1993
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"