Jones, C (2013) Instruments of Medical Information: The Rise of the Medical Trade Catalog in Britain, 1750-1914. Technology and Culture, 54 (3). pp. 563-599. ISSN 0040-165X
Abstract
Recent interest in our current information age has provided scholars in a wide range of disciplines with increasing impetus to study the origins and development of a variety of forms of printed and non-printed media. This article addresses the rise of a largely neglected but significant non-literary form of print within the medical trade between 1750 and 1914: the mail-order catalog. It focuses on the development of the physical form of the publication – from attractive book of display to commercial mail-order catalog – to highlight economic, technological and professional changes within and beyond the field of medicine. As a result of such changes, catalogs became an increasingly important technology of medical information used by medical and surgical instrument makers to access and control markets of late-eighteenth, nineteenth and early-twentieth century medical practitioners on a local, national and international scale.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2013 by the Society for the History of Technology. All rights reserved. This is an author produced version of a paper published in Technology and Culture. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 12 Jul 2013 12:09 |
Last Modified: | 16 Jan 2018 14:13 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/tech.2013.0114 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | John Hopkins University Press |
Identification Number: | 10.1353/tech.2013.0114 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:75841 |