Treating the children of the poor: institutions and the construction of medical authority in eighteenth-century London
<p>It is commonly accepted that, prior to the rise of paediatric medicine as a formal medical specialisation in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, medical care of children was primarily conducted by women in the context of the household. However, as this thesis argues, there was vibrant m...
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2011
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