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...think of Charles Darwin as a kindly-looking old man with a big beard, but let's wind the clock back to the vigorous 22-year old embarking in 1831 on the voyage of a lifetime around the world on the survey ship, HMS Beagle. Recently down from Cambridge, his training there for the clergy had assured him that species were fixed in character, having been divinely created with...

...thinking and practice in the nineteenth century give examples of many medical advances that were influenced by wider social, economic, political and cultural contexts understand how developments in medical education permitted women to qualify and practise as doctors appreciate that the laboratory had a limited impact on medical practice until the twentieth century...