The Medical Trade Catalogue in Britain, 1870–1914
Claire L Jones
256pp: 234x156mm:
October 2013
HB 978 1 84893 443 6
£60/$99
By the late nineteenth century, advances in medical knowledge,
technology and pharmaceuticals led to the development of a thriving
commercial industry. The medical trade catalogue became one of the most
important means of promoting the latest tools and techniques to
practitioners. Drawing on over 400 catalogues produced between 1870 and
1914, Jones presents a study of the changing nature of medical
professionalism. She examines the use of the catalogue in connecting the
previously separate worlds of medicine and commerce and discusses its
importance to the study of print history more widely.
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