Health, Medicine, and Society in Victorian England
- ISBN-10
- 0275989526
- ISBN-13
- 9780275989521
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 214
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2010
- Publisher
- ABC-CLIO
- Author
- Mary Wilson Carpenter
Description
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. * Offers a chronology of medical history in Victorian England * Includes illustrations in every chapter, such as images from 19th-century medical textbooks, magazine cartoons, portraits, and paintings
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