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Medicine, Knowledge and Venereal Diseases in England, 1886-1916

Part of the Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History Book Series

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-32455-5

ISBN: 978-3-319-32454-8

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Nov 6, 2016

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Chapter 1Introduction

Hanley, Anne R.

Pages: 1 –23

[Syphilis and gonorrhoea played upon the public imagination in Victorian and Edwardian England, inspiring both fascination and fear. Seemingly inextricable from the other great ‘social evil’, prostitution, these diseases represented contamination, both physical and moral. They infiltrated...
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Chapter 2Training Competent Generalists

Hanley, Anne R.

Pages: 25 –62

[This chapter examines the organisation and limitations of venereological teaching among undergraduates. The undergraduate study of venereal diseases constitutes an important case study for wider concerns over the quality of medical training among competent generalists. How much should students...
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Chapter 3Postgraduate Specialism

Hanley, Anne R.

Pages: 63 –106

[Having established the place of venereal diseases on the undergraduate curriculum, this chapter moves on to examine the opportunities available to doctors who wanted to augment or refresh their knowledge over the course of their medical careers. It examines the emergence of postgraduate...
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Chapter 4Under the Microscope

Hanley, Anne R.

Pages: 107 –146

[The rise of laboratory medicine and developing understandings of bacteriology and pathology fundamentally altered the way that doctors thought about, diagnosed and treated venereal diseases. This chapter reveals how developments in laboratory-based research influenced the trajectory of...
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Chapter 5Clinical Practice and Patient Care

Hanley, Anne R.

Pages: 147 –187

[In the absence of centralised state objectives or policies, responsibility for diagnosis, treatment and prevention fell to medical professionals whose work was conducted on a largely individual or institutional basis. This chapter offers a mosaic of medical practice, examining the nature and...
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Chapter 6Nursing Knowledge

Hanley, Anne R.

Pages: 189 –222

[This chapter contextualises the limitations of venereological study among nurses within a wider framework of professionalism and knowledge circulation. Nurses at some training schools received specific (if not specialised) instruction, while others were left almost ignorant of the symptoms of,...
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Chapter 7Midwifery and Ophthalmia Neonatorum

Hanley, Anne R.

Pages: 223 –263

[Although various manifestations of venereal diseases are addressed throughout this book, this chapter offers a detailed account of how knowledge developed around one specific condition—gonorrhoeal ophthalmia neonatorum—and how two different groups of medical professionals were trained to care...
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Chapter 8Conclusions

Hanley, Anne R.

Pages: 265 –275

[Medicine, Knowledge and Venereal Diseases has done much to demonstrate how, around the turn of the twentieth century, knowledge of venereal diseases was developed through the combined use of traditional practices and emerging technologies. This book has opened up new perspectives on what made...

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