Advancing with the army : medicine, the professions, and social mobility in the British Isles, 1790-1850 / Marcus Ackroyd [and others].

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Ackroyd, Marcus

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.Description: 1 online resource (xv, 393 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780191514838
0191514837
1280753765
9781280753763
9786610753765
6610753768

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Advancing with the army.DDC classification:

616.98023094109034 22

LOC classification:

UH258.4 .A38 2006eb

NLM classification:

2007 B-706
WZ 112.5.M4

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Contents:

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.

Summary: 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.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-376) and index.

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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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