Mourning jewelry in late Georgian and Victorian Britain

Socialists and Social Reformers in Late Victorian and Edwardian Britain

Privileged communications: medical confidentiality in late Victorian Britain.

But at the turn of the century a number of court cases brought home to British doctors the fact that there were no hard and fast rules governing disclosure. Some in the profession argued that since medical colleagues in Europe and parts of North America had the legal right to defend the secrecy of their "privileged communications", British doctors' reputations would suffer if they did not win t...

Medicine and Community in Victorian Britain

"Unfit for human consumption": tuberculosis and the problem of infected meat in late Victorian Britain.

By the 1890s, questions about tuberculous meat in Britain served to transform the issue of infected meat from an ill-defined to a concrete threat. Veterinarians, building on European inoculation (or transmission) experiments, played a prominent part in constructing the debate, with medical officers of health following. With the emergence of bacteriology in the 1880s, a consensus emerged about t...

Endangered lives. Public health in Victorian Britain

somewhat tempted to put in a word for the swine. Of course, William Pickles's classic on Epidemiology in country practice is readily available in medical libraries; but I suspect that Lord Moynihan's Truants is not, and Ruth Holland's collection of Richard Asher's writings is certainly not thus available. I hope that after a decent interval, A sense of Asher will be reprinted, possibly even as ...