Book Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Tables and figures -- Editors and contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Reforming the patient in the age of reform: Thomas Beddoes and medical practice -- Thomas Beddoes -- Civilization and its sicknesses -- Enlightenment and illness -- The road to reform -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 2 Private enterprise and public interests: medical education and the Apothecaries' Act, 1780-18251 -- Notes -- 3 'Trading assassins' and the licensing of anatomy -- Notes -- 4 The disappearance of the patient's narrative and the invention of hospital medicine -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- 5 Robert Carswell and William Thomson at the Hôtel-Dieu of Lyons: Scottish views of French medicine -- Introduction -- The actors: Robert Carswell and William Thomson -- The setting: L'Hôtel-Dieu de Lyon -- Carswell at the Hôtel-Dieu: the primacy of pathology -- Thomson at the Hôtel-Dieu: the scientific surgeon -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 6 The idea of science in English medicine: the 'decline of science' and the rhetoric of reform, 1815-45 -- The 'decline of science' in England and the rise of medicine in France -- Degradation proclaimed: science and the general practitioner -- Declinism and reform -- Science and professional order -- A comparative perspective on the meaning of science -- The idea of science -- Notes -- 7 Why were most medical heretics at their most confident around the 1840s? (The other side of mid-Victorian medicine) -- Notes -- 8 William Brande and the chemical education of medical students -- Notes -- 9 A scientific profession: medical reform and forensic medicine in British periodicals of the early nineteenth century -- Forensic medicine as exemplar of ideals -- Medico-legal exposures -- Publicity, reform, and forensic medicine -- Notes.

10 Religion, respectability and the origins of the modern nurse -- Notes -- Index.