Medicine, knofwledge and venereal diseases in England, 1886-1916 / Anne R. Hanley.
Hanley, Anne R., author.
2016
RC201.6.G7
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Title Medicine, knofwledge and venereal diseases in England, 1886-1916 / Anne R. Hanley.
Author Hanley, Anne R., author.
ISBN 9783319324555 (electronic book)
3319324551 (electronic book)
9783319324548
3319324543
Published Cham, Switzerland : Springer Science and Business Media : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Language English
Description 1 online resource.
Call Number RC201.6.G7
Dewey Decimal Classification 616.951009411
Summary This book reveals the ever-present challenges of patient care at the forefront of medical knowledge. Syphilis and gonorrhoea played upon the public imagination in Victorian and Edwardian England, inspiring both fascination and fear. Seemingly inextricable from the other great 'social evil', prostitution, these diseases represented contamination, both physical and moral. They infiltrated respectable homes and brought terrible suffering and stigma to those afflicted. Medicine, Knowledge and Venereal Diseases takes us back to an age before penicillin and the NHS, when developments in pathology, symptomology and aetiology were transforming clinical practice. It will be the first book to examine systematically how doctors, nurses and midwives grappled with new knowledge and laboratory-based technologies in their fight against venereal diseases in voluntary hospitals, general practice and Poor Law institutions. It opens up new perspectives on what made competent and safe medical professionals; how these standards changed over time; and how changing attitudes and expectations affected the medical authority and autonomy of different professional groups.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Series Medicine and biomedical sciences in modern history.
Available in Other Form Medicine, knofwledge and venereal diseases in England, 1886-1916.
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Acknowledgements; Contents; Abbreviations; List of Figures; Chapter 1: Introduction; Venereological Knowledge; Generalism versus Specialism; Medical Authority andßGendered Professional Boundaries; Medicine, Knowledge andßVenereal Diseases; Notes; Chapter 2: Training Competent Generalists; An Overcrowded Curriculum; 'Fit andßProper' General Practitioners; Undergraduate Examinations; Overcrowded andßIll-equipped Outpatient Departments; Insufficient Clinical Material onßtheßWards; Notes; Chapter 3: Postgraduate Specialism; Facilities at theßMGC; ClinicalßConsultations.

Cross-institutional Cooperation 'An ounce ofßpractice is worth aßton ofßtheory'; Teaching Postgraduates about Venereal Diseases; Recommended Treatments ; Notes; Chapter 4: Under theßMicroscope; Antigonococcal Vaccine Therapy andßOpsonic Indexing; Salvarsan, 'A Therapeutic Dreadnought'; The Wassermann Reaction; Notes; Chapter 5: Clinical Practice andßPatient Care; Public Health Authorities andßPreventative Medicine; General Practitioners, Club Practice andßNational Health Insurance; Poor Law Provisions andßSpecial Hospitals; Notes; Chapter 6: Nursing Knowledge.

Circumscribed Theoretical KnowledgeTeach Your Nurses toß'Teach Themselves'; Practical Knowledge andßWard Work; Nursing inßtheßPoor Law Service; Notes; Chapter 7: Midwifery andßOphthalmia Neonatorum; Midwifery Training andßPractice; Training, Examination andßQualification; The Gonococcus; Bacteriological Examinations; Therapeutics andßProphylaxis; Notes; Chapter 8: Conclusions; Notes; Select Bibliography; Archival Repositories; Journals; Legislation and Parliamentary Papers; Primary Literature; Secondary Literature; Theses; Index.

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