Medical lives in the age of surgical revolution
An unusual history of doctors trained in Britain in the last quarter of the nineteenth century, and their careers in Britain and the Empire. In this book, Crowther and Dupree describe the experience of a whole generation of doctors at a time of rapid changes in medical knowledge.
Print Book, English, 2007
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2007
XV, 425 p. : il. ; 24 cm.
9780521835480, 0521835488
1025395469
List of illustrations; List of tables; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Arrivals; 2. Student days: the shared experience of survival; 3. Joseph Lister and the teaching of surgery; 4. First steps: the first five years after qualification; 5. Jex-Blake's women: education and careers; 6. Varieties of practice; 7. Listerism in practice; 8. Lister's men abroad: settlers; 9. Lister's men abroad: imperialists, missionaries and enclaves; 10. Last days; Conclusion; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.