Advancing with the Army: Medicine, the Professions and Social Mobility in the British Isles 1790-1850

Advancing with the Army: Medicine, the Professions and Social Mobility in the British Isles 1790-1850

ISBN-10:
0199267065
ISBN-13:
9780199267064
Pub. Date:
03/01/2007
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
ISBN-10:
0199267065
ISBN-13:
9780199267064
Pub. Date:
03/01/2007
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Advancing with the Army: Medicine, the Professions and Social Mobility in the British Isles 1790-1850

Advancing with the Army: Medicine, the Professions and Social Mobility in the British Isles 1790-1850

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Overview

Providing a statistical study of a professional cohort in the era of the industrial revolution, this prosopographical study, of some 450 surgeons who joined the army medical service during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars, charts their background, education, military and civilian career, marriage, and wealth at death.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780199267064
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 03/01/2007
Pages: 408
Product dimensions: 9.30(w) x 6.30(h) x 1.30(d)

About the Author

Dr. Kathryn Retford is a Lecturer in History of Art at Birkbeck, University of London

Dr. John Stevenson is a Reader in Modern History at Worcester College Oxford

Table of Contents

Introduction: The French Wars, Industrialisation and the Professions
1. Army medical service
2. Background
3. Medical Education
4. Army Careers
5. Professional Life Outside the Service
6. Fortunes and Families
7. Enquiring Minds
8. Reflection
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