Medical Identities and Print Culture, 1830s-1910s

1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-3-030-74347-5
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 396 g

Reihe: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Moulds, Alison

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction.- 2. The Young Practitioner.- 3. The Metropolitan Practitioner.- 4. The Country Practitioner.- 5. The Medical Woman.- 6. The Colonial Practitioner in British India.- 7. Conclusion.

Über Autor(innen)

Alison Moulds is a cultural historian and literary scholar. She completed her DPhil at the University of Oxford, UK, as part of the AHRC-funded Constructing Scientific Communities project. Moulds then worked on Diseases of Modern Life (ERC-funded, University of Oxford, UK) and Surgery & Emotion (Wellcome Trust-funded, University of Roehampton, UK). She now has a career in health policy.