Tomkins Alannah
J Soc Hist. 2011;44(3):915-35. doi: 10.1353/jsh.2011.0013.
The social standing of the surgeon-apothecary cannot be determined by reference to professional life alone, yet few such men left social documents. The lower middling sort was typically reticent about evaluations of their own social position in any source genre. This article uses a unique archive, and the concept of community connectedness, to investigate the status of Thomas Higgins, surgeon-apothecary and man-midwife of north Shropshire. Higgins embodied the traditional practitioner who relied on local knowledge and his 'friends' for advancement, in contrast to alternative modes of rising professionalism. He was demonstrably a trusted man at the heart of his home town, but his reliance on the 'partiality' of his neighbors brought him into conflict with his colleagues.
外科药剂师的社会地位不能仅通过参考其职业生活来确定，然而这类人留下的社会文献很少。下层中产阶级通常对任何资料类型中关于他们自身社会地位的评价都保持沉默。本文利用一个独特的档案库以及社区联系的概念，来研究北什罗普郡的外科药剂师兼男助产士托马斯·希金斯的地位。与职业化提升的其他模式形成对比的是，希金斯体现了依靠当地知识和他的“朋友”来获得晋升的传统从业者形象。他显然是家乡核心地带一位值得信赖的人，但他对邻居“偏袒”的依赖使他与同事发生了冲突。
