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Biography & Autobiography Medical

Langstaff

A Nineteenth-Century Medical Life

by (author) Jacalyn Duffin

Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Initial publish date
Oct 1993
Category
Medical, History, General
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780802074140
    Publish Date
    Oct 1993
    List Price
    $38.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781487589585
    Publish Date
    Dec 1999
    List Price
    $41.95

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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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