Britain's medical marketplace, 1750-1939

Tutor: Dr Carmen Mangion

In this option, students will examine how doctors, nurses and patients encountered illness and addressed medical care in Britain drawing on a variety of material including secondary reading, primary sources and pictorial images.  Students will examine competing new and old forms of medical and nursing practices in this period, from scientifically-based developments to the most imaginative kinds of quackery!   This option will explore the evolving relationship between doctors, nurses and patients through the exploration of gender, class, religion, poverty and professionalisation.   This option will be taught through a mixture of lectures and seminars incorporating discussions of primary source materials.

GENERAL READING

 Anne Digby, Making a Medical Living: Doctors and Patients in the English Market for Medicine, 1720-1922 (1994).

Anne Hardy, Health and Medicine in Britain since 1860 (2001).

Joan Lane, Social History of Medicine: Health, Healing and Disease in England, 1750-1950 (2001).

 Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity from Antiquity to the Present (1997).

Roy Porter, Disease, Medicine and Society in England, 1550-1860 (1987)

 F. B. Smith, The People’s Health, 1830-1910 (1990).