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Nursing the English from Plague to Peterloo, 1660-1820 (2025)
Book
Tomkins, A. (2025). Nursing the English from Plague to Peterloo, 1660-1820. Manchester: Manchester University Press

Nursing the English analyses the reputations and experiences of women and men who nursed the sick before any calls for nursing reform. The book begins in the late seventeenth century with the last epidemic of plague. It concludes in 1820, the year... Read More about Nursing the English from Plague to Peterloo, 1660-1820.

Medical Misadventure in an age of Professionalisation, 1780-1890 (2017)
Book
Tomkins. (2017). Medical Misadventure in an age of Professionalisation, 1780-1890

This book looks at medical professionalisation from a new perspective, one of failure rather than success. It questions the existing picture of broad and rising medical prosperity across the nineteenth century to consider the men who did not keep up... Read More about Medical Misadventure in an age of Professionalisation, 1780-1890.

Medical History Education for Health Practitioners (2013)
Book
Lovett, L., & Tomkins, A. (2013). Medical History Education for Health Practitioners. (1). Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.1201/9781908911025

'Twenty-first century medicine is just the current stage of a never-ending journey of tremendous complexity. Those of us who are fortunate enough to practise in this day and age do so in ways that are themselves the results of huge changes over many... Read More about Medical History Education for Health Practitioners.