The Medical Trade Catalogue in Britain, 1870-1914

Makes important contributions to the histories of print culture, medicine, and technology . . . will be welcomed by readers as diverse as historians of nineteenth-century marketing, the growing community of scholars of the Victorian periodical press, and surgical historians.

Isis

By the late nineteenth century, advances in medical knowledge, technology and pharmaceuticals led to the development of a thriving commercial industry. The medical trade catalogue became one of the most important means of promoting the latest tools and techniques to practitioners. Drawing on over 400 catalogues produced between 1870 and 1914, Jones presents a study of the changing nature of medical professionalism. She examines the use of the catalogue in connecting the previously separate worlds of medicine and commerce and discusses its importance to the study of print history more widely.

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This book clearly shows the symbiotic relationship between medicine and commerce in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries . . . an important contribution not only to the history of the book, but to the history of medicine.

Bulletin of the History of Medicine

Vastly expands our understandings of the modern medical profession by locating much of its growth and shape in the late Victorian and Edwardian commercial world. Through an extensive study of doctors' records, trade literature and advertising material Jones shows how a culture of technological commodities helped shape doctors' perceptions of what was modern, scientific medicine. Any historian with an interest in how money makes the world go round should read this.

Christopher Lawrence, University College London

256 Pages, 6 x 9 in.

December, 2020

isbn : 9780822966388

Series

Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century

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Claire L. Jones is Lecturer in History at the University of Kent.

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