British Medicine in an Age of ReformRoutledge |
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 |
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