Tracing Your Medical Ancestors: A Guide for Family Historians

by Michelle Higgs

The medical profession had as much influence on the lives of our ancestors as it does on our lives today. It occupied an extraordinary range of individuals - surgeons, doctors, nurses and specialists of all kinds. Yet, despite burgeoning interest in all aspects of history and ancestry, medicine has rarely been considered from the point of view of a family historian. This is the main purpose of Michelle Higgs's accessible and authoritative introduction...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1848842775
• ISBN13: 9781848842779
• Release Date: July 2011
• Publisher: Pen & Sword Books
• Length: 192 Pages