Performing Medicine: Medical Culture and Identity in Provincial England, C.1760-1850

by Michael Brown

Book Overview

When did medicine become modern? This book takes a fresh look at one of the most important questions in the history of medicine. It explores how the cultures, values and meanings of medicine were transformed across the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries as its practitioners came to submerge their local identities as urbane and learned gentlemen into the ideal of a nationwide and scientifically-based medical profession. Moving beyond traditional...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0719095573
• ISBN13: 9780719095573
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"