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- catalog abstract "In the late twentieth century, we assume a wide array of humanitarian and democratic privilege: health insurance, preventive medicine, equal treatment of rich and poor, equal rights for all. But in Victorian England these issues were just emerging. A nineteenth-century British physician, Dr. Thomas Hodgkins, was their committed champion; his battle ultimately cost him his career. Dr. Hodgkins is now best known for his description of the disease of the lymph nodes named after him, but he was also a reformer, an educator, and a Quaker. He was responsible for numerous medical discoveries. He actively advocated health insurance for the working poor. Throughout his life he espoused the humane treatment of the underprivileged, including minorities. His farsighted vision of medicine and society brought him into conflict with the establishment of the Victorian Empire- with many important medical, religious, and political figures of his time. This vision and struggle remain significant more than 100 years after his death. The authors, both prominent medical educators at Harvard University, have based this book on the hitherto unexplored papers and letters of Dr. Hodgkins and his family in the first major biography of this great nineteenth-century British physician. -- from Book Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b2092647.
- catalog contributor b2092648.
- catalog coverage "Great Britain".
- catalog created "c1988.".
- catalog date "1988".
- catalog date "c1988.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1988.".
- catalog description "Bibliography: p. 523-614.".
- catalog description "In the late twentieth century, we assume a wide array of humanitarian and democratic privilege: health insurance, preventive medicine, equal treatment of rich and poor, equal rights for all. But in Victorian England these issues were just emerging. A nineteenth-century British physician, Dr. Thomas Hodgkins, was their committed champion; his battle ultimately cost him his career. Dr. Hodgkins is now best known for his description of the disease of the lymph nodes named after him, but he was also a reformer, an educator, and a Quaker. He was responsible for numerous medical discoveries. He actively advocated health insurance for the working poor. Throughout his life he espoused the humane treatment of the underprivileged, including minorities. His farsighted vision of medicine and society brought him into conflict with the establishment of the Victorian Empire- with many important medical, religious, and political figures of his time. This vision and struggle remain significant more than 100 years after his death. The authors, both prominent medical educators at Harvard University, have based this book on the hitherto unexplored papers and letters of Dr. Hodgkins and his family in the first major biography of this great nineteenth-century British physician. -- from Book Jacket.".
- catalog description "pt. 1, The early years (1798-1819): -- A Quaker boyhood -- Science and philanthropy at Plough Court -- The apothecary's apprentice; -- pt. 2, Medical training (1819-1825): -- Walking the wards at Mr. Guy's Hospital -- The medical student at Edinburgh -- A year in Paris -- Buchanan's Cap -- Wanderjahre; -- pt. 3, The years at Guy's (825-1837): -- The museum and the medical school -- The dissecting room -- On the preservation of health -- Philanthropy and family -- Cholera and the British Association -- Disease of the lymph nodes -- The colonization of Africa -- Medical maturation- 1836 -- Aborigines and reform -- Crises; -- pt. 4, Regeneration (1837-1849): -- Further disappointments -- Insanity and moral insanity -- Medicine after Guy's -- Lectures on pathologic anatomy, volume two -- Medical education and medical reform -- The Syrian Medical Aid Association -- Preservation of the "Feebles Races" -- The proper study of mankind -- Antislavery and Liberian independence -- The third Sarah; -- pt. 5, The contented years (1849-1866): -- Mid-century and mid-life -- Journeys with Montefiore: 1857-1859 -- Friend of humanity -- The final journey.".
- catalog extent "xxx, 642 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Perfecting the world.".
- catalog identifier "0151717001".
- catalog isFormatOf "Perfecting the world.".
- catalog issued "1988".
- catalog issued "c1988.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Boston : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich,".
- catalog relation "Perfecting the world.".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain".
- catalog subject "610/.92/4 B 19".
- catalog subject "Hodgkin, Thomas, 1798-1866.".
- catalog subject "Physicians Great Britain Biography.".
- catalog subject "Physicians".
- catalog subject "R489.H63 K37 1988".
- catalog subject "WZ 100 H6895K 1988".
- catalog tableOfContents "pt. 1, The early years (1798-1819): -- A Quaker boyhood -- Science and philanthropy at Plough Court -- The apothecary's apprentice; -- pt. 2, Medical training (1819-1825): -- Walking the wards at Mr. Guy's Hospital -- The medical student at Edinburgh -- A year in Paris -- Buchanan's Cap -- Wanderjahre; -- pt. 3, The years at Guy's (825-1837): -- The museum and the medical school -- The dissecting room -- On the preservation of health -- Philanthropy and family -- Cholera and the British Association -- Disease of the lymph nodes -- The colonization of Africa -- Medical maturation- 1836 -- Aborigines and reform -- Crises; -- pt. 4, Regeneration (1837-1849): -- Further disappointments -- Insanity and moral insanity -- Medicine after Guy's -- Lectures on pathologic anatomy, volume two -- Medical education and medical reform -- The Syrian Medical Aid Association -- Preservation of the "Feebles Races" -- The proper study of mankind -- Antislavery and Liberian independence -- The third Sarah; -- pt. 5, The contented years (1849-1866): -- Mid-century and mid-life -- Journeys with Montefiore: 1857-1859 -- Friend of humanity -- The final journey.".
- catalog title "Perfecting the world : the life and times of Dr. Thomas Hodgkin 1798-1866 / Amalie M. Kass, Edward H. Kass.".
- catalog type "Biography".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "text".