An unusual history of doctors - both male and female - trained in Britain in the last quarter of the nineteenth century.

A socio-economic history of medical practice from the first voluntary hospital to national health insurance.

Many surgical revolutions distinguish the history and evolution of surgery. Some are small, others more dominant, but each revolution improves the art and scien

This book looks at medical professionalisation from a new perspective, one of failure rather than success. It questions the existing picture of broad and rising

Available in paperback for the first time, this book is the first comprehensive history of Irish women in medicine in the late nineteenth and early twentieth ce