The success of the medical practitioner in Early Modern England has done much to arouse
and inform the professionalisation debate. This chapter shows that a broader approach to …

This thesis studies the professionalization of medicine in New Zealand from the introduction
of national medical licensing in 1867, to 1941, when the British Medical Association (New …

The structure of medical practice in early modern England has been the subject of
considerable historiographical attention in recent years. There has been discussion of the …

Professional groups formed an important segment of the emerging urban'middle classes' in
early and mid-nineteenth century Britain; some attention has been paid to their role in social …

The role of medical societies in the professionalization of medicine is an area of study which
has been somewhat neglected over the last twenty years. The purpose of this paper is to re …

What was it like to work in the 'medical marketplace'of early modern London? How did
medical practitioners interact with each other? How did they obtain, treat and cure patients …

By the end of the nineteenth century, medicine in Britain existed legally as a single
profession. Besides its lawful status, a number of very general features also characterized …

Unlike most histories of the medical profession between 1750 and 1850, which focus on a
small handful of famous doctors and their discoveries, this book concentrates on the …

This paper will examine differences in the roles played in the practice of surgery by males
and females associated with the Barber-Surgeons Company in seventeenth-century …

There is little disagreement among historians of British medicine that between 1858, when
the Medical Act reached the statute books, and 1900, the profession underwent profound …