Title Medical identities and print culture, 1830s-1910s / Alison Moulds

Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2021 ©2021

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 288 pages : illustrations (black and white)) Series Palgrave studies in literature, science and medicine Palgrave studies in literature, science, and medicine. Contents Introduction -- The Young Practitioner -- The Metropolitan Practitioner -- The Country Practitioner -- The medical woman -- The colonial practitioner in British India -- Conclusion Summary 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. 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 Notes 1. Introduction2. The Young Practitioner3. The Metropolitan Practitioner4. The Country Practitioner5. The Medical Woman6. The Colonial Practitioner in British India7. Conclusion Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed Print version record Subject English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism Literature and medicine -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century Literature and medicine -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century Medicine in literature. Medical literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century Medical literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century English literature Literature and medicine Medical literature Medicine in literature Great Britain Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 9783030743451 3030743454

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