Langstaff : : A Nineteenth-Century Medical Life / / 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).

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
©1999
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Heritage
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Physical Description:1 online resource (416 p.)
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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --   |t Contents --   |t Tables, Figures, and Maps --   |t Acknowledgments --   |t Introduction --   |t Chapter One. The Making of a Doctor --   |t Chapter Two. The Professional and Social World of a Nineteenth-Century Doctor --   |t Chapter Three. Medical Knowledge in Diagnosis: Physical Signs at the Bedside --   |t Chapter Four. Medical Knowledge in Therapy: Old Stand-bys, Innovations, and Intangibles --   |t Chapter Five. Patients and Their Diseases: Morbidity and Mortality in Children and Adults --   |t Chapter Six. Lunatics, Dreamers, and Drunks --   |t Chapter Seven. Accidents, Injuries, and Operations: Langstaff's Practice of Surgery --   |t Chapter Eight. Birthing and Its Problems in Langstaff's Practice of Obstetrics --   |t Chapter Nine. Therapy through Social Action: Lawyers, Politics, and Public Health --   |t Conclusion --   |t Appendix A. A Note on Method --   |t Appendix B. Professional Associates of James Miles Langstaff --   |t Appendix C. Langstaff's Personal Library and Charities --   |t Appendix D. Langstaff's Properties --   |t Appendix E. Therapies in Langstaff's Daybooks --   |t Appendix F. Medical Diagnoses in Langstaff's Daybooks --   |t Notes --   |t List of Manuscript and Printed Sources --   |t Select Bibliography --   |t Illustration Credits --   |t Index 
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