Health in the Marketplace: Professionalism, Therapeutic Desires, and Medical Commodification in Late-Victorian London

Author:   Takahiro Ueyama
Publisher:   Society for the Promotion of Science & Scholarship Inc.,U.S.
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9780930664299


Pages:   378
Publication Date:   10 September 2010
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Takahiro Ueyama
Publisher:   Society for the Promotion of Science & Scholarship Inc.,U.S.
Imprint:   Society for the Promotion of Science & Scholarship Inc.,U.S.
Dimensions:   Width: 22.90cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 15.20cm
Weight:   0.680kg
ISBN:  

9780930664299


ISBN 10:   0930664299
Pages:   378
Publication Date:   10 September 2010
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

1. Profession and the Market: The BMA's Campaign Against Patent Medicine Reconsidered 2. Purchasing Health: Medical Consumerism and the Commodity Culture, 1884-1914 3. Victorian Quacks, the Body Electric, and the Commercialization of Medicine 4. Electro-Therapeutic Institutes and the Royal College of Physicians: Medical Technology and Professional Norms 5. Massage Therapy, Sexuality, and the Commercialization of Medicine

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Well before the efflorescence of late-Victorian commodity culture, medical capitalism had permeated--and in many ways compromised--the seemingly well-established purity of medical professionalism. Timothy Lenoir, Duke University


""Well before the efflorescence of late-Victorian commodity culture, medical capitalism had permeated--and in many ways compromised--the seemingly well-established purity of medical professionalism."" Timothy Lenoir, Duke University


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Takahiro Ueyama is professor of the history unit in the Faculty of Economics, Sophia University, Tokyo.

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