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
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Heritage
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (416 p.)

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).

Table of Contents

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