Medicine, Knowledge and Venereal Diseases in England, 1886-1916

Anne Hanley is a Junior Research Fellow at the University of Oxford. After completing her PhD in History at the University of Cambridge, she worked with the Centre for History and Philosophy of Science and the Museum of the History of Science, Technology and Medicine at the University of Leeds. Her research interests are in the social history of medicine and healthcare during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, along with closely related themes in gender, political and economic history. She has published on the history of infertility, midwifery, medical education and nineteenth-century clinical experimentation.

Introduction. - 1. Training competent generalists. - 2. Postgraduate specialism. - 3. Under the microscope. - 4. Clinical practice and patient care. - 5. Nursing knowledge. - 6. Midwifery and ophthalmia neonatorum. - Conclusions.

"The book begins with the training of competent general practitioners. Like infectious diseases more generally, it proved a tough job to find time for venereology in the medical student curriculum." (Graham Mooney, Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Vol. 74 (3), July, 2019)
"This book considers the societal, legislative, scientific and medical changes that influenced our understanding of, and responses to, syphilis and gonorrhoea. ... it richly illustrates the problems faced by healthcare professionals and contains a wealth of information of interest to the more general reader." (Tim Mason, BSHM British Society for the History of Medicine, bshm.org.uk, July, 2017)