Reading the Nineteenth-Century Medical Journal

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Reading the Nineteenth-Century Medical Journal is written by Sally Frampton and published by Routledge. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1000294048 (ISBN 10) and 9781000294040 (ISBN 13).

This book explores medical and health periodicals of the nineteenth century: their contemporary significance, their readership, and how historians have approached them as objects of study. From debates about women doctors in lesser-known titles such as the Medical Mirror, to the formation of professional medical communities within French and Portuguese periodicals, the contributors to this volume highlight the multi-faceted nature of these publications as well as their uses to the historian. Medical periodicals – far from being the preserve of doctors and nurses – were also read by the general public. Thus, the contributions collected here will be of interest not only to the historian of medicine, but also to those interested in nineteenth-century periodical culture more broadly. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the journal Media History.