Reading the Nineteenth-Century Medical Journal

<p>This book explores medical and health periodicals of the nineteenth century: their contemporary significance their readership and how historians have approached them as objects of study. </p><p>From debates about women doctors in lesser-known titles such as the <i>Medical Mirror</i> to the formation of professional medical communities within French and Portuguese periodicals the contributors to this volume highlight the multi-faceted nature of these publications as well as their uses to the historian. Medical periodicals – far from being the preserve of doctors and nurses – were also read by the general public. Thus the contributions collected here will be of interest not only to the historian of medicine but also to those interested in nineteenth-century periodical culture more broadly.</p><p>The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the journal <i>Media History.</i></p>