British Medicine in an Age of Reform

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Contents

Introduction
1
Thomas Beddoes and medical practice
9
medical education and the Apothecaries Act 178018251
45
3 Trading assassins and the licensing of anatomy
74
4 The disappearance of the patients narrative and the invention of hospital medicine
92
Scottish views of French medicine
110
the decline of science and the rhetoric of reform 181545
135
7 Why were most medical heretics at their most confident around the 1840s? The other side of midVictorian medicine
164
8 William Brande and the chemical education of medical students
184
medical reform and forensic medicine in British periodicals of the early nineteenth century
201
10 Religion respectability and the origins of the modern nurse
228
Index
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