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OverviewThis book looks at medical professionalisation from a new perspective, one of failure rather than success. It questions the existing picture of broad and rising medical prosperity across the nineteenth century to consider the men who did not keep up with professionalising trends. It unpicks the life stories of men who could not make ends meet or who could not sustain a professional persona of disinterested expertise, either because they could not overcome public accusations of misconduct or because they struggled privately with stress. In doing so it uncovers the trials of the medical marketplace and the pressures of medical masculinity. All professionalising groups risked falling short of rising expectations, but for doctors these expectations were inflected in some occupationally specific ways. -- . Full Product DetailsAuthor: Alannah TomkinsPublisher: Manchester University Press Imprint: Manchester University Press Dimensions: Width: 13.80cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.499kg ISBN: 9781526116079ISBN 10: 1526116073 Pages: 304 Publication Date: 10 July 2017 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General/trade , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsList of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgements 1. Introduction 2. Financial hardship: bankruptcy, insolvency, and medical charity 3. Thwarted ambition and disappointing careers? Narratives of the Indian Medical Service 4. Accident or on purpose? Neglect, incompetence, and unintentional killing 5. Crimes Against the Body: Causing harm 6. Mad Doctors: lunacy and the asylum 7. Despairing doctors: professional stress and suicide 8. Conclusion Select Bibliography Index -- .Reviews'Alannah Tomkins's Medical Misadventure in an Age of Professionalisation, 1780-1890, does justice to the richness and complexity of nineteenth-century medical lives and through collective biography effectively resists the temptation to recapitulate the trials and tribulations of medical history's 'great men'. It is a crucial contribution to our knowledge of the affairs - quotidian and catastrophic alike - of the 'regular' medical practitioner in Victorian Britain, and considers the making and unmaking of professional boundaries in a turbulent era. [.It] is a compelling and painstakingly researched book. Reading it will repay dividends to students and scholars of nineteenth-century medicine.' Agnes Arnold-Forster, Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Vol. 74, No. 2 (April 2019) -- . 'Alannah Tomkins's Medical Misadventure in an Age of Professionalisation, 1780-1890, does justice to the richness and complexity of nineteenth-century medical lives and through collective biography effectively resists the temptation to recapitulate the trials and tribulations of medical history's 'great men'. It is a crucial contribution to our knowledge of the affairs - quotidian and catastrophic alike - of the 'regular' medical practitioner in Victorian Britain, and considers the making and unmaking of professional boundaries in a turbulent era. [...It] is a compelling and painstakingly researched book. Reading it will repay dividends to students and scholars of nineteenth-century medicine.' Agnes Arnold-Forster, Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Vol. 74, No. 2 (April 2019) -- . Author InformationAlannah Tomkins is Professor of History at Keele University Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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