Reading the Nineteenth-Century Medical Journal

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2020-12-29
Mått174 x 246 x 13 mm
Vikt370 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor104
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9780367643263

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Naturvetenskapens historia inom Naturvetenskap och teknik
Historia inom Historia och arkeologi
Medievetenskap inom Samhalle och politik
Medicinhistoria inom Medicin

Sally Frampton is Humanities and Healthcare Fellow at the University of Oxford, UK. Her publications have focused on the history of surgery and the development of medical journalism in the nineteenth century, and include her monograph Belly-Rippers, Surgical Innovation and the Ovariotomy Controversy (Palgrave, 2018). Jennifer Wallis is historian of medicine and psychiatry at Imperial College London, UK. Her publications include Investigating the Body in the Victorian Asylum: Doctors, Patients, and Practices (Palgrave, 2017) and the co-authored volume Anxious Times: Medicine & Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Britain (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019).

Introduction: Reading Medicine and Health in PeriodicalsSally Frampton and Jennifer Wallis1. The ‘Medical-Women Question’ and the Multivocality of the Victorian Medical Press, 1869-1900Alison Moulds2. Shaping Doctors and Society: The Portuguese Medical Press (1880-1926)Ana Carneiro, Teresa Salomé Mota and Isabel Amaral3. Reading Photography in French Nineteenth-Century JournalsBeatriz Pichel4. ‘Bicycle-Face’ and ‘Lawn Tennis’ Girls: Debating girls’ health in late nineteenthand early twentieth-century British periodicals Hilary Marland5. Using Digitised Medical Journals in a Cross European Project on Addiction HistoryAlex Mold and Virginia Berridge