Medical Identities and Print Culture, 1830s-1910s

by Alison Moulds

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030743446
• ISBN13: 9783030743444
• Release Date: August 2021
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.3"