Making a medical living : doctors and patients in the English market for medicine, 1720-1911 / Anne...
Making a medical living : doctors and patients in the English market for medicine, 1720-1911 / Anne...
Making a medical living : doctors and patients in the English market for medicine, 1720-1911 / Anne Digby.
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Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1994.
Date
1994.
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N362.10941/40
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English
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xix, 348 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Pt. I. The professional structure of practice. 1. Medical practitioners. 2. The context of practice. 3. Medical encounters -- Pt. II. The economic dimensions of practice. 4. The creation of a surgical general practice. 5. The GP and the goal of prosperity. 6. Physicians -- Pt. III. Patients and doct...
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Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1994.
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England
Date Published
1994.
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Summary
From the mid-eighteenth century doctors travelled to see ordinary patients, developed specialisms and expanded institutions. Despite limitations in treatment, doctors raised demand for their services as illuminating case studies of women, children, the poor and the affluent show. But doctors did not limit their own numbers, and were largely unsucce...
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Making a medical living : doctors and patients in the English market for medicine, 1720-1911 / Anne Digby.
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Cambridge studies in population, economy, and society in past time ; 24.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-337) and indexes.
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N362.10941/40
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74VK7oZvJWrA
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052134526X
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362.10941
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991022887389702626
