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Medical identities and print culture, 1830s-1910s / Alison Moulds.

9783030743451 (electronic bk.)
3030743454 (PDF ebook)
9783030743444 (hbk.)
3030743446

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.

©2021

English

1 online resource (xiv, 288 pages : illustrations (black and white)).

10.1007/978-3-030-74345-1 doi

PN56.M38 M68 2021eb

820.9356109034

This book examines how the medical profession engaged with print and literary culture to shape its identities between the 1830s and 1910s in Britain and its empire. Moving away from a focus on medical education and professional appointments, the book reorients attention to how medical self-fashioning interacted with other axes of identity, including age, gender, race, and the spaces of practice. Drawing on medical journals and fiction, as well as professional advice guides and popular periodicals, this volume considers how images of medical practice and professionalism were formed in the cultural and medical imagination. Alison Moulds uncovers how medical professionals were involved in textual production and consumption as editors, contributors, correspondents, readers, authors, and reviewers. Ultimately, this book opens up new perspectives on the relationship between literature and medicine, revealing how the profession engaged with a range of textual practices to build communities, air grievances, and augment its cultural authority and status in public life. Alison Moulds is a cultural historian and literary scholar. She completed her DPhil at the University of Oxford, UK, as part of the AHRC-funded Constructing Scientific Communities project. Moulds then worked on Diseases of Modern Life (ERC-funded, University of Oxford, UK) and Surgery & Emotion (Wellcome Trust-funded, University of Roehampton, UK). She now has a career in health policy.

1. Introduction2. The Young Practitioner3. The Metropolitan Practitioner4. The Country Practitioner5. The Medical Woman6. The Colonial Practitioner in British India7. Conclusion.

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