Claire Brock
Biographic Data
| ID | 3785164 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Claire Brock |
| GIVEN NAMES | Claire |
| FAMILY NAME | Brock |
| SIGNATURE | BROCK C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Leicester |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5212-5188 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1967 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Child Surgical Patient in the Early Twentieth Century
In the second half of the nineteenth century, scientific and technological developments in surgery permitted safer procedures to be carried out. Theoretically, therefore, children whose lives would otherwise have been blighted by disease could be saved by timely operative interference. The reality was more complicated, however, as this article shows. Through an exploration of British and American surgical textbooks and an in-depth analysis of the…
Surgery, Success, and the Role of the Patient in Cleft Palate Operations, circa 1800-1930
In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, scientific and technological developments made surgery safer, more reliable, and, with the corresponding increase in experimentation permitted, more exploratory and successful than ever before. The age of the heroic surgeon, however, obscured procedures that relied on the patient's cooperation for a final, positive outcome. This essay focuses on the debates surrounding cleft palate surgery in Brita…
Sally Frampton, Belly-Rippers, Surgical Innovation and the Ovariotomy Controversy
The extent to which ovariotomy attracted and repelled nineteenth-century society is admirably illustrated even before you open this fascinating book. On the cover, a ‘belly-ripping’ procedure from Spencer Wells’ Diseases of the Ovaries (1865) shows an enormous cyst is being removed; the disembodied surgical hands are confidently invading but simultaneously alleviating the unidentified abdomen. Illustrations within similarly depict the stark impac…
Patricia Fara. A Lab of One’s Own: Science and Suffrage in the First World War
A Lab of One’s Own was published in 2018 to coincide with two centennial anniversaries: the end of the Great War, and the passing of the Representation of the People Act, which finally gave the vote to British women over the age of thirty. Its subtitle, Science and Suffrage in the First World War, belies the book’s breadth of coverage, however, as Patricia Fara provides a wider survey of women as scientists and as objects of scientific study in B…
Beulah Bewley, My Life as a Woman and a Doctor
Beulah Bewley’s account of her life is chatty, informal and idiosyncratic, but nonetheless fascinating for it. It is telling that the book’s title separates the two parts of her life as a female and as a member of the medical profession because this is not just the story of a woman doctor. In fact, it is far richer than that, covering three-quarters of a century well spent in the pursuit of many interests. Despite a privileged Irish background, B…
The Disappearance of Sophia Frances Hickman, M.D
By the start of the twentieth century, forty years after she first came into existence, the woman doctor was no longer a novelty, to be mocked or dreaded by patients and the profession alike. Women’s ‘fitness’ to practise had, indeed, been proven by the early Edwardian period. One August afternoon in 1903, Sophia Frances Hickman, a recently qualified graduate of the London School of Medicine for Women, walked out of the Royal Free Hospital and va…
Surgical Controversy at the New Hospital for Women, 1872-1892
This article examines the complex position of nineteenth-century women surgeons, employing the New Hospital for Women in London, with its all-female medical staff, as a case study. An examination of a variety of published and manuscript sources reveal that, while the Victorian woman surgeon was a reality, her position was a precarious one. A lack of clinical experience was a factor in her difficulties, but there were also a number of other concer…
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson and the professionalism of medical publicity
A B S T R A C T • This article examines how early women doctors managed their professional and public images in the second half of the nineteenth century through a case study of the career of the first medical woman to qualify in Britain: Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (1836—1917). In fighting for their cause, Victorian women doctors had to negotiate the medical profession's disdain for what it considered 'unprofessional advertising', which it aligne…
The Feminization of Fame 1750–1830
This book addresses the literary, cultural and historical questions surrounding the reconceptualization of fame between 1750-1830. It examines genres from history writing to literature, public and pri
Germaine de Staël: ‘When one can no longer find peace of mind in obscurity, it is necessary to look for strength in celebrity’
Reminiscing three years after the death of Germaine de Staël, Henry Crabb Robinson retold a complex story of fame and desire. Desire for fame and the woes of its attendant ills were apparent in this seemingly familiar tale of seduction and seclusion, where rural innocence is corrupted by aristocratic, cosmopolitan savoir faire. In similar fashion to a Laclosian fiction, however, all was not what it seemed. The capturing of the reader’s imaginatio…
William Hazlitt, On Being Brilliant: The Spirit of the Age
The most intriguing feature of the publication of Germaine de Staël’s De l’Allemagne, coupled with the presence of the author at the launch in London and the reissuing of many of her other works, was the quite surprising number of literary and journalistic responses to the Staëlian oeuvre and, especially, Staëlian fame theory. Some of the most intense replies came from William Hazlitt, who continued to engage with de Staël’s work directly and obl…
The public worth of Mary Somerville
This article assesses the reputation of Mary Somerville in the 1830s and suggests that critical confusion over her status in the changing world of early nineteenth-century science is not new. Drawing on Somerville’s own writings, contemporary newspaper and periodical reviews, political debates and unpublished manuscripts, Somerville's ‘uniqueness’ as a public figure is examined through the eyes of both the nascent scientific community of the time…
Public Experiments
Journal Article Public Experiments Get access Claire Brock Claire Brock Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Workshop Journal, Volume 58, Issue 1, AUTUMN 2004, Pages 306–312, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/58.1.306 Published: 01 October 2004
Rousseauvian Remains
This article counters the Burkean legacy of contempt and distaste that has dominated recent critical discussions of Rousseau's British reception with an analysis of the incredible response of men to Jean‐Jacques Rousseau and his literary and literal remains. Intertwining the man of feeling with the man of virtuous action, writing with the private self, Rousseau put forward models of self‐representation that were accommodating to the ordinary man,…
Small Change: Women, learning, patriotism, 1750-1810
The Control of Restrictive Practices from 1965. A Study of the Restrictive Practices Court
Journal Article G. Brock. The Control of Restrictive Practices from 1965. A Study of the Restrictive Practices Court Get access The Control of Restrictive Practices from 1965. A Study of the Restrictive Practices Court. By G. Brock. (London: McGraw-Hill, 1966. Pp. 194. 38s. (clothbound), 25s. (paperbound).) Ruth Cohen Ruth Cohen Newnham College, Cambridge. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journ…
The public worth of Mary Somerville
This article assesses the reputation of Mary Somerville in the 1830s and suggests that critical confusion over her status in the changing world of early nineteenth-century science is not new. Drawing on Somerville’s own writings, contemporary newspaper and periodical reviews, political debates and unpublished manuscripts, Somerville's ‘uniqueness’ as a public figure is examined through the eyes of both the nascent scientific community of the time…
Surgical Controversy at the New Hospital for Women, 1872-1892
This article examines the complex position of nineteenth-century women surgeons, employing the New Hospital for Women in London, with its all-female medical staff, as a case study. An examination of a variety of published and manuscript sources reveal that, while the Victorian woman surgeon was a reality, her position was a precarious one. A lack of clinical experience was a factor in her difficulties, but there were also a number of other concer…
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson and the professionalism of medical publicity
A B S T R A C T • This article examines how early women doctors managed their professional and public images in the second half of the nineteenth century through a case study of the career of the first medical woman to qualify in Britain: Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (1836—1917). In fighting for their cause, Victorian women doctors had to negotiate the medical profession's disdain for what it considered 'unprofessional advertising', which it aligne…
The Control of Restrictive Practices from 1965. A Study of the Restrictive Practices Court
Journal Article G. Brock. The Control of Restrictive Practices from 1965. A Study of the Restrictive Practices Court Get access The Control of Restrictive Practices from 1965. A Study of the Restrictive Practices Court. By G. Brock. (London: McGraw-Hill, 1966. Pp. 194. 38s. (clothbound), 25s. (paperbound).) Ruth Cohen Ruth Cohen Newnham College, Cambridge. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journ…
Small Change: Women, learning, patriotism, 1750-1810
Rousseauvian Remains
This article counters the Burkean legacy of contempt and distaste that has dominated recent critical discussions of Rousseau's British reception with an analysis of the incredible response of men to Jean‐Jacques Rousseau and his literary and literal remains. Intertwining the man of feeling with the man of virtuous action, writing with the private self, Rousseau put forward models of self‐representation that were accommodating to the ordinary man,…
Public Experiments
Journal Article Public Experiments Get access Claire Brock Claire Brock Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Workshop Journal, Volume 58, Issue 1, AUTUMN 2004, Pages 306–312, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/58.1.306 Published: 01 October 2004
The Feminization of Fame 1750–1830
This book addresses the literary, cultural and historical questions surrounding the reconceptualization of fame between 1750-1830. It examines genres from history writing to literature, public and pri
Germaine de Staël: ‘When one can no longer find peace of mind in obscurity, it is necessary to look for strength in celebrity’
Reminiscing three years after the death of Germaine de Staël, Henry Crabb Robinson retold a complex story of fame and desire. Desire for fame and the woes of its attendant ills were apparent in this seemingly familiar tale of seduction and seclusion, where rural innocence is corrupted by aristocratic, cosmopolitan savoir faire. In similar fashion to a Laclosian fiction, however, all was not what it seemed. The capturing of the reader’s imaginatio…
William Hazlitt, On Being Brilliant: The Spirit of the Age
The most intriguing feature of the publication of Germaine de Staël’s De l’Allemagne, coupled with the presence of the author at the launch in London and the reissuing of many of her other works, was the quite surprising number of literary and journalistic responses to the Staëlian oeuvre and, especially, Staëlian fame theory. Some of the most intense replies came from William Hazlitt, who continued to engage with de Staël’s work directly and obl…
The public worth of Mary Somerville
This article assesses the reputation of Mary Somerville in the 1830s and suggests that critical confusion over her status in the changing world of early nineteenth-century science is not new. Drawing on Somerville’s own writings, contemporary newspaper and periodical reviews, political debates and unpublished manuscripts, Somerville's ‘uniqueness’ as a public figure is examined through the eyes of both the nascent scientific community of the time…
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson and the professionalism of medical publicity
A B S T R A C T • This article examines how early women doctors managed their professional and public images in the second half of the nineteenth century through a case study of the career of the first medical woman to qualify in Britain: Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (1836—1917). In fighting for their cause, Victorian women doctors had to negotiate the medical profession's disdain for what it considered 'unprofessional advertising', which it aligne…
Surgical Controversy at the New Hospital for Women, 1872-1892
This article examines the complex position of nineteenth-century women surgeons, employing the New Hospital for Women in London, with its all-female medical staff, as a case study. An examination of a variety of published and manuscript sources reveal that, while the Victorian woman surgeon was a reality, her position was a precarious one. A lack of clinical experience was a factor in her difficulties, but there were also a number of other concer…
The Disappearance of Sophia Frances Hickman, M.D
By the start of the twentieth century, forty years after she first came into existence, the woman doctor was no longer a novelty, to be mocked or dreaded by patients and the profession alike. Women’s ‘fitness’ to practise had, indeed, been proven by the early Edwardian period. One August afternoon in 1903, Sophia Frances Hickman, a recently qualified graduate of the London School of Medicine for Women, walked out of the Royal Free Hospital and va…
Beulah Bewley, My Life as a Woman and a Doctor
Beulah Bewley’s account of her life is chatty, informal and idiosyncratic, but nonetheless fascinating for it. It is telling that the book’s title separates the two parts of her life as a female and as a member of the medical profession because this is not just the story of a woman doctor. In fact, it is far richer than that, covering three-quarters of a century well spent in the pursuit of many interests. Despite a privileged Irish background, B…
Sally Frampton, Belly-Rippers, Surgical Innovation and the Ovariotomy Controversy
The extent to which ovariotomy attracted and repelled nineteenth-century society is admirably illustrated even before you open this fascinating book. On the cover, a ‘belly-ripping’ procedure from Spencer Wells’ Diseases of the Ovaries (1865) shows an enormous cyst is being removed; the disembodied surgical hands are confidently invading but simultaneously alleviating the unidentified abdomen. Illustrations within similarly depict the stark impac…
Patricia Fara. A Lab of One’s Own: Science and Suffrage in the First World War
A Lab of One’s Own was published in 2018 to coincide with two centennial anniversaries: the end of the Great War, and the passing of the Representation of the People Act, which finally gave the vote to British women over the age of thirty. Its subtitle, Science and Suffrage in the First World War, belies the book’s breadth of coverage, however, as Patricia Fara provides a wider survey of women as scientists and as objects of scientific study in B…
Surgery, Success, and the Role of the Patient in Cleft Palate Operations, circa 1800-1930
In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, scientific and technological developments made surgery safer, more reliable, and, with the corresponding increase in experimentation permitted, more exploratory and successful than ever before. The age of the heroic surgeon, however, obscured procedures that relied on the patient's cooperation for a final, positive outcome. This essay focuses on the debates surrounding cleft palate surgery in Brita…
The Child Surgical Patient in the Early Twentieth Century
In the second half of the nineteenth century, scientific and technological developments in surgery permitted safer procedures to be carried out. Theoretically, therefore, children whose lives would otherwise have been blighted by disease could be saved by timely operative interference. The reality was more complicated, however, as this article shows. Through an exploration of British and American surgical textbooks and an in-depth analysis of the…
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