Reading the Nineteenth-Century Medical Journal - 9780367643263

Taylor & Francis

Reading the Nineteenth-Century Medical JournalAuthor(s): Sally Frampton, Jennifer Wallis\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367643263, 978-0367643263\nSynopsis\nThis book explores medical and health periodicals of the nineteenth century: their contemporary significance, their readership, and how historians have approached them as objects of study. \n\nFrom debates about women doctors in lesser-known titles such as the Medical Mirror, to the formation of professional medical communities within French and Portuguese periodicals, the contributors to this volume highlight the multi-faceted nature of these publications as well as their uses to the historian. Medical periodicals far from being the preserve of doctors and nurses were also read by the general public. Thus, the contributions collected here will be of interest not only to the historian of medicine, but also to those interested in nineteenth-century periodi.