Medical Lives in the Age of Surgical Revolution

by M. Anne Crowther and Marguerite W. Dupree

Book Overview

This book is an unusual history of doctors trained in Britain in the last quarter of the nineteenth century, and their careers in Britain and the empire. Anne Crowther and Marguerite Dupree describe the experience of a whole generation of doctors at a time of rapid changes in medical knowledge. Amongst them were Sophia Jex-Blake and the first group of medical women in Britain. Many became disciples of Joseph Lister as he trained them in his new methods...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521152836
• ISBN13: 9780521152839
• Release Date: August 2010
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 446 Pages
• Weight: 1.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"