Thomas Garnett: Science, Medicine, Mobility in Eighteenth Century Britain
Autor Professor Robert Foxen Limba Engleză Hardback – 8 feb 2024
Fox gives an engrossing and moving account of the trials, triumphs, and tragedies of Garnett's life, exploring his disputes with established doctors concerning the medicinal virtues of mineral waters, his involvement in the contested politics surrounding the creation of the Royal Institution of Great Britain and his premature death. In doing so, Fox deftly shows how Garnett's life can illuminate a wide canvas of the social history of British science and medicine in the crucial period of early industrialisation
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781350239296
ISBN-10: 1350239291
Pagini: 208
Ilustrații: 10 bw illus
Dimensiuni: 152 x 236 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.47 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1350239291
Pagini: 208
Ilustrații: 10 bw illus
Dimensiuni: 152 x 236 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.47 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Cuprins
Preface
Introduction
1. The Hardy Progeny of the North
2. Edinburgh: Conformity and Dissent in Medicine
3. Yorkshire: Spa Doctor and Man of Science
4. Industrial Britain: Urban Markets, Urban Promise
5. London: Tragedy in Mayfair
6. Reputation and Legacy
7. Epilogue: The Garnett Heritage
Bibliography
Index
Introduction
1. The Hardy Progeny of the North
2. Edinburgh: Conformity and Dissent in Medicine
3. Yorkshire: Spa Doctor and Man of Science
4. Industrial Britain: Urban Markets, Urban Promise
5. London: Tragedy in Mayfair
6. Reputation and Legacy
7. Epilogue: The Garnett Heritage
Bibliography
Index
Recenzii
This is firmly an intellectual and professional biography, and the reader learns a great deal about Garnett's thinking in addition to his haphazard vocational course ... Fox's account conveys the flexibility and improvisatory skill it took to thrive, let alone survive, in an era in which the role of professional scientist was still inchoate and new forms of professionalized medical careers were just emerging.
A deeply researched, welcome study: the long-forgotten first professor at London's Royal Institution, Thomas Garnett, finally emerges from the shadows. Important themes from the
Industrial Revolution - London versus the provinces, aristocratic pretensions versus humble
talent, life versus death - are deftly illuminated. Robert Fox has fashioned a gem.
Robert Fox's long-awaited valuable biography of Thomas Garnett provides a very human and moving story of a life in late eighteenth-century Britain. Using it, Fox tracks the fundamental changes that occurred in British science during that period, especially Garnett's crucial role in the creation of permanent scientific institutions.
A brilliantly researched, clearly articulated, panoramic view of late 18th-century rural and cosmopolitan British medical education, contemporary practices, urban and rural professional hierarchies, and contentious pedagogues.
Robert Fox has written an entertaining, lucid, informative, and short (in a good way) book about the life of the now-obscure Thomas Garnett . [an] informative and enjoyable volume.
A deeply researched, welcome study: the long-forgotten first professor at London's Royal Institution, Thomas Garnett, finally emerges from the shadows. Important themes from the
Industrial Revolution - London versus the provinces, aristocratic pretensions versus humble
talent, life versus death - are deftly illuminated. Robert Fox has fashioned a gem.
Robert Fox's long-awaited valuable biography of Thomas Garnett provides a very human and moving story of a life in late eighteenth-century Britain. Using it, Fox tracks the fundamental changes that occurred in British science during that period, especially Garnett's crucial role in the creation of permanent scientific institutions.
A brilliantly researched, clearly articulated, panoramic view of late 18th-century rural and cosmopolitan British medical education, contemporary practices, urban and rural professional hierarchies, and contentious pedagogues.
Robert Fox has written an entertaining, lucid, informative, and short (in a good way) book about the life of the now-obscure Thomas Garnett . [an] informative and enjoyable volume.