Langstaff : : A Nineteenth-Century Medical Life / / Jacalyn Duffin.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• VerfasserIn: Duffin, Jacalyn,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©1999
• Godina izdanja: 2016
• Jezik: English
• Serija: Heritage
• Opis: 1 online resource (416 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Tables, Figures, and Maps --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; Chapter One. The Making of a Doctor --; Chapter Two. The Professional and Social World of a Nineteenth-Century Doctor --; Chapter Three. Medical Knowledge in Diagnosis: Physical Signs at the Bedside --; Chapter Four. Medical Knowledge in Therapy: Old Stand-bys, Innovations, and Intangibles --; Chapter Five. Patients and Their Diseases: Morbidity and Mortality in Children and Adults --; Chapter Six. Lunatics, Dreamers, and Drunks --; Chapter Seven. Accidents, Injuries, and Operations: Langstaff's Practice of Surgery --; Chapter Eight. Birthing and Its Problems in Langstaff's Practice of Obstetrics --; Chapter Nine. Therapy through Social Action: Lawyers, Politics, and Public Health --; Conclusion --; Appendix A. A Note on Method --; Appendix B. Professional Associates of James Miles Langstaff --; Appendix C. Langstaff's Personal Library and Charities --; Appendix D. Langstaff's Properties --; Appendix E. Therapies in Langstaff's Daybooks --; Appendix F. Medical Diagnoses in Langstaff's Daybooks --; Notes --; List of Manuscript and Printed Sources --; Select Bibliography --; Illustration Credits --; Index
• Sažetak: A unique and readable microhistory of an ordinary physician and his community during a period of revolutionary medical change. Duffin bases her insights on a detailed computer-assisted analysis of 40 years of extant daybooks of James Langstaff (1825-1889).
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781442676381; 9783110490947
• Digitalni identifikator objekta: 10.3138/9781442676381
• Pristup: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Jacalyn Duffin.

A unique and readable microhistory of an ordinary physician and his community during a period of revolutionary medical change. Duffin bases her insights on a detailed computer-assisted analysis of 40 years of extant daybooks of James Langstaff (1825-1889).