Medical identities and print culture, 1830s-1910s
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Medical identities and print culture, 1830s-1910s
（Palgrave studies in literature, science and medicine）
Palgrave Macmillan, c2021
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
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.
Table of Contents
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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