Medicine, knowledge, and venereal diseases in England, 1886-1916
- 作者： Hanley, Anne R., author.
- 其他作者：
- 其他題名：
- Medicine and biomedical sciences in modern history.
- 出版： Cham : Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
- 叢書名： Medicine and biomedical sciences in modern history
- 主題： Sexually transmitted diseases--England--History--19th century. , Sexually transmitted diseases--England--History--20th century. , History. , History of Britain and Ireland. , History of Science. , Cultural History.
- ISBN： 9783319324555 (electronic bk.) 、 9783319324548 (paper)
-
FIND@SFXID:
CGU
- 資料類型: 電子書
- 摘要註: This book reveals the ever-present challenges of patient care at the forefront of medical knowledge. Syphilis and gonorrhoea played upon the public imagination in Victorian and Edwardian England, inspiring both fascination and fear. Seemingly inextricable from the other great 'social evil', prostitution, these diseases represented contamination, both physical and moral. They infiltrated respectable homes and brought terrible suffering and stigma to those afflicted. Medicine, Knowledge and Venereal Diseases takes us back to an age before penicillin and the NHS, when developments in pathology, symptomology and aetiology were transforming clinical practice. It will be the first book to examine systematically how doctors, nurses and midwives grappled with new knowledge and laboratory-based technologies in their fight against venereal diseases in voluntary hospitals, general practice and Poor Law institutions. It opens up new perspectives on what made competent and safe medical professionals; how these standards changed over time; and how changing attitudes and expectations affected the medical authority and autonomy of different professional groups.
-
讀者標籤：
- 系統號： 005381578 | 機讀編目格式
館藏資訊
This book reveals the ever-present challenges of patient care at the forefront of medical knowledge. Syphilis and gonorrhoea played upon the public imagination in Victorian and Edwardian England, inspiring fascination and fear. Seemingly inextricable from the other great 'social evil', prostitution, these diseases represented contamination, both physical and moral. They infiltrated respectable homes and brought terrible suffering and stigma to those afflicted. Medicine, Knowledge and Venereal Diseases takes us back to an age before penicillin and the NHS, when developments in pathology, symptomology and aetiology were transforming clinical practice. This is the first book to examine systematically how doctors, nurses and midwives grappled with new ideas and laboratory-based technologies in their fight against venereal diseases in voluntary hospitals, general practice and Poor Law institutions. It opens up new perspectives on what made competent and safe medical professionals; how these standards changed over time; and how changing attitudes and expectations affected the medical authority and autonomy of different professional groups.