A Book About Doctors
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Readers interested in medical humanities and the history of doctor-patient relations
- Students studying Victorian British society and culture
- General readers who enjoy biographical anecdotes and essay-style popular science
- Teachers and students needing engaging supplementary material for medical history courses
Not a good fit for
- Readers seeking modern medical knowledge or clinical guidance
- Researchers needing rigorous academic citations and data sources
- Readers who prefer systematic general histories and dislike the essay style
Reading tips
- Start with the table of contents, pick chapters by figure, and proceed by interest rather than order.
- Mark views later corrected by modern medicine as you read and keep comparative notes.
- Write a two- or three-sentence summary after each chapter to keep anecdotal details from blurring together.
- Pair it with British social history sources to understand changes in doctors' professional standing.
About the publisher
Project Gutenberg is a digital publishing project focused on public-domain ebooks. Its publishing direction centers on classic literary works whose copyright has expired, covering genres such as poetry, drama, fiction, and epic. Representative books include Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge, Proust's Du côté de chez Swann, Shakespeare's Macbeth and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Homer's The Iliad, Dante's La Divina Comèdia: Purgatòri, Cervantes's The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, and Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. Its author resources consist mainly of classic Western writers such as Wordsworth, Proust, Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Grahame, and Tolstoy. Its publishing feature is the provision of freely accessible ebooks in EPUB and Kindle formats; it is not a traditional publisher, and publicly available information is limited.
Contents
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About the author
John Cordy Jeaffreson (1831–1901) was a British author known for his histories of professions such as law and medicine and for biographies of literary figures. His works focus chiefly on the records and anecdotes of the English legal and medical professions, as in A Book About Lawyers and A Book About Doctors, presenting the daily life and character of these professional groups in a clear, anecdote-rich narrative. He also wrote the two-volume The Real Shelley. New Views of the Poet's Life, which seeks to re-examine Shelley's life through documentary evidence, reflecting his documentary and historically grounded approach. Jeaffreson's writing combines archival compilation with readability, leaving a useful body of work on nineteenth-century British professional history and literary biography. Because public information is limited, details of his life are difficult to set out, yet his subjects and style can still be glimpsed through these works.
