Reforming the patient in the age of reform : Thomas Beddoes and medical practice / Roy Porter -- Private enterprise and public interests : medical education and the Apothecaries' Act, 1780-1825 / Susan C. Lawrence -- 'Trading assassins' and the licensing of anatomy / Ruth Richardson -- The disappearance of the patient's narrative and the invention of hospital medicine / Mary E. Fissell -- Robert Carswell and William Thomson at the Hôtel-Dieu of Lyons : Scottish views of French medicine / Stephen Jacyna -- The idea of science in English medicine : the 'decline of science' and the rhetoric of reform, 1815-45 / John Harley Warner -- Why were most medical heretics at their most confident around the 1840s? : (The other side of mid-Victorian medicine) / Logie Barrow
William Brande and the chemical education of medical students / Elizabeth Haigh -- A scientific profession : medical reform and forensic medicine in British periodicals of the early nineteenth century / Catherine Crawford -- Religion, respectability and the origins of the modern nurse / Perry Williams
Summary
Between 1780 and 1850 was one of the great turning points in British medicine. The authors chart the nature and dynamics of the radical changes which occurred in this period
Analysis
Medicine History
Great Britain
Notes
Based on a conference held Sept. 1987 in London and sponsored by the Royal Institution's Centre for the History of Science and Technology
