The Gentleman Artist-Surgeon in Late Victorian Group Portraiture

The Gentleman Artist-Surgeon in Late Victorian Group Portraiture

In this article I consider the ways in which group portraits of surgeons, a genre associated with inscriptions of corporate membership and institutional authority, reflected the complex and at times contradictory status of surgeons during the late Victorian period. Group portraits from this period offer a diverse range of representations of surgeons - from middle-class professional to hygiene r...

Harvey Cushing, Surgeon, Author, Artist

ELEMENTS OF HUMAN PHYSIOLOGY. By Miriam Scott Lucas. Philadelphia, Lea & Febiger, 2d edition, 1950. 357 pp. $4.75. The second edition of this college text of human physiology shows very little change from the first edition. Despite the statement in the preface that the section on the nervous system is completely rewritten, there seems to have been no rewriting at all of this section, but merely...

Spencer Wells, the Life and Work of a Victorian Surgeon

been teaching anatomy for some two years, but Morgan immediately took it upon himself to arrange the opening of a medical school attached to the College of Philadelphia, without any consultation with his erstwhile fellow student. Morgan's remarkable inaugural lecture in May 1765, A Discourse upon the Institution ofMedical Schools in America was the climax of his career, and his plans and recomm...

Literature and the Late-Victorian Radical Press

Amidst a larger surge in the number of books and periodicals published in late-nineteenth-century Britain, a corresponding surge occurred in the radical press. The counter-cultural press that emerged at the fin de siècle sought to define itself in opposition to commercial print and the capitalist press and was deeply antagonistic to existing political, economic, and print publishing structures....

The Late Surgeon James Fawcus