Medical misadventure in an age of professionalisation, 1780-1890 /

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Author / Creator:Tomkins, Alannah, author.
Imprint:Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2017.
Description:1 online resource
Language:English
Series:Social histories of medicine.
Social histories of medicine.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11759094
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ISBN:9781526116086
1526116081
9781526116079
9781526116109
1526116103
9781526116109
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
In English.
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed September 6, 2017).
Summary: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.
Other form:Print version: Tomkins, Alannah. Medical misadventure in an age of professionalisation, 1780-1890, Manchester, UK. : Manchester University Press, 2017, 9781526116079
Standard no.:10.7765/9781526116086