Medical men and military matters: the BMJ and the Victorian army.
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The British army in the mid-Victorian period was a world within a world: recruited by voluntary, enlistment rather than universal conscription, grouped in regimental "families," and passing long years away from home on colonial service. The army's medical officers were physically and intellectually isolated from their civilian colleagues and could almost be said to be living in another age as well as another world. Military nomenclature knew only "surgeons," so that while the civilian profession was not only distinguishing between surgery and medicine but also spawning further specialties within them, army practitioners, despite the immense variety of their workload, could still be popularly identified with the sordid aftermath of battle and the crude and none too hopeful remedy of amputation. Whereas civilian doctors strove to associate their calling with the advance of science and the exercise of talent their military counterparts had few opportunities to observe new clinical developments and little incentive to do. so; promotion, which came to them with excruciating slowness, was the reward not of merit but of seniority.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- BMJ
دوره 301 6754 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1990