Victorian Medicine - From Fluke to Theory

Page 6 of 6

• 1. The effect of urbanisation
• 2. The appliance of science
• 3. Breakthroughs
• 4. Medicine institutionalised
• 5. Significant changes
• 6. Find out more
• Print entire article

Find out more

Read on

Science and the Practice of Medicine in the Nineteenth Century by WF Bynum (Cambridge, 1994)

A Social History of Medicine by FF Cartwright (Longman, 1977)

The Epidemic Streets by Anne Hardy (Clarendon, 1993)

'The Victorian Vision', article by Jan Marsh (Victoria and Albert Museum, 2001)

About the author

Bruce Robinson is a professional journalist who graduated with a first class degree in History from Cambridge University, specialising in English Social, Political and Economic History from 1300 to 1600.

 Previous

Published: 2002-02-01