Medical Misadventure considers the doctors whose careers were disrupted or entirely derailed by misfortune, ineptitude, or temptation to crime. Conflicts with colleagues, and threats to medical masculinity, gave rise to extraordinary stories of loss, distress, and occasional recovery.
Medical Misadventure considers the doctors whose careers were disrupted or entirely derailed by misfortune, ineptitude, or temptation to crime. Conflicts with colleagues, and threats to medical masculinity, gave rise to extraordinary stories of loss, distress, and occasional recovery.
Alannah Tomkins is Professor of History at Keele University
Inhaltsangabe
List of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgements 1. Introduction 2. Financial hardship: bankruptcy, insolvency, and medical charity 3. Thwarted ambition and disappointing careers? Narratives of the Indian Medical Service 4. Accident or on purpose? Neglect, incompetence, and unintentional killing 5. Crimes Against the Body: Causing harm 6. Mad Doctors: lunacy and the asylum 7. Despairing doctors: professional stress and suicide 8. Conclusion Select Bibliography Index
List of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgements 1. Introduction 2. Financial hardship: bankruptcy, insolvency, and medical charity 3. Thwarted ambition and disappointing careers? Narratives of the Indian Medical Service 4. Accident or on purpose? Neglect, incompetence, and unintentional killing 5. Crimes Against the Body: Causing harm 6. Mad Doctors: lunacy and the asylum 7. Despairing doctors: professional stress and suicide 8. Conclusion Select Bibliography Index
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