Biography & Autobiography Medical
Langstaff
A Nineteenth-Century Medical Life
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Initial publish date
- Oct 1993
- Category
- Medical, History, General
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780802074140
- Publish Date
- Oct 1993
- List Price
- $38.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781487589585
- Publish Date
- Dec 1999
- List Price
- $41.95
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Description
A unique and readable microhistory of an ordinary physician and his community during a period of revolutionary medical change. Duffin bases her insights on a detailed computer-assisted analysis of 40 years of extant daybooks of James Langstaff (1825-1889).
About the author
Jacalyn Duffin is a haematologist and historian who is Professor in the Hannah Chair of the History of Medicine at Queen`s University.
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Langstaff
A Nineteenth-Century Medical Life