Advancing with the army : medicine, the professions, and social mobility in the British Isles, 1790-1850 / Marcus Ackroyd [and others].
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- 9780191514838
- 0191514837
- 1280753765
- 9781280753763
- 9786610753765
- 6610753768
- Medicine, Military -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
- Social mobility -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
- Physicians -- Great Britain -- Biography
- Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 -- Medical care -- Great Britain
- Great Britain -- History, Military -- 1789-1820
- Physicians -- history
- History, 19th Century
- Military Medicine -- history
- Social Mobility -- history
- United Kingdom
- Médecine militaire -- Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire -- 19e siècle
- Mobilité sociale -- Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire -- 19e siècle
- Guerres napoléoniennes, 1800-1815 -- Soins médicaux -- Grande-Bretagne
- Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire militaire -- 1789-1820
- Médecine -- Histoire -- 19e siècle
- MEDICAL -- Infectious Diseases
- HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- Contagious
- Medical care
- Medicine, Military
- Physicians
- Social mobility
- Great Britain
- Napoleonic Wars (1800-1815)
- 1789-1899
- 616.98023094109034 22
- UH258.4 .A38 2006eb
- 2007 B-706
- WZ 112.5.M4
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-376) and index.
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Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: The French Wars, Industrialization, and the Professions; 1 The Army Medical Service; 2 Background; 3 Education; 4 Army Careers; 5 Professional Life outside the Service; 6 Fortunes and Families; 7 Enquiring Minds; 8 Reflection; Appendix 1 Description of Database; Appendix 2 List of doctors in the sample; Manuscript Sources; Bibliography; Index.
A detailed biographical study of the members of the army medical service during the Revolution and Napoleonic wars that charts their background and life both in and outside the army. It demonstrates how a group of medical practitioners from relatively humble backgrounds could use social contacts and experience forged in the army to become an established part of the educated British imperial elite. - ;Providing the first ever statistical study of a professional cohort in the era of the industrial revolution, this prosopographical study of some 450 surgeons who joined the army medical service du.
English.
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