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Reading the Nineteenth-Century Medical Journal

Jennifer Wallis editor Sally Frampton editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published:29th Dec '20

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This 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.

From 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 periodical culture more broadly.

The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the journal Media History.

ISBN: 9780367643263

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 353g

104 pages