Performing Medicine: Medical Culture and Identity in Provincial England, C.1760-1850

by Michael Brown (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2011

  $90.83

  The book offers a fresh and distinctive account of the transformation of provincial English medicine from the late eighteenth to the mid nineteenth centuries. Written by one of the leading scholars in the field it demonstrates how the roots of modern medicine can be located in the cultural, political and ideological upheavals of the age of reform. -- .