Health, Medicine, and Society in Victorian England

by Mary Wilson Carpenter

Book Overview

This work offers a social and cultural history of Victorian medicine "from below," as experienced by ordinary practitioners and patients, often described in their own words.

Health, Medicine, and Society in Victorian England is a human story of medicine in 19th-century England. It's a story of how a diverse and competitive assortment of apothecary apprentices, surgeons who learned their trade by doing, and physicians schooled...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275989526
• ISBN13: 9780275989521
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.3"