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Class consciousness

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  • A rich physician feels the pulse of a poor, sick patient; he tells him he is fine. Coloured stipple engraving by J.J. after E.J. Pigal, c. 1840.
  • A poor doctor takes the pulse of a rich, corpulent patient and announces that he is very ill. Lithograph after E.J. Pigal, c. 1840.
  • A poor doctor takes the pulse of a rich, corpulent patient and announces that he is very ill. Coloured stipple engraving by J.J. after E.J. Pigal, c. 1840.
  • A rich physician feels the pulse of a poor, sick patient; he tells him he is fine. Coloured lithograph by E.J. Pigal, 1822.
  • A louche man approaches  a well-dressed man who has looked at hs girlfriend and asks him "What do you want, clown?". Coloured lithograph by E.J. Pigal. 1822.
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    Class counts : comparative studies in class analysis / Erik Olin Wright.

    Wright, Erik Olin. | Date: 1997
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    A rich man and a woman who has visited him for tea gossip about an impoverished gentleman's daughter who is present in his house as a governess: the visitor looks at the governess with a supercilious expression. Engraving by R. Hatfield, 1842, after Richard Redgrave, 1840.

    Redgrave, Richard, 1804-1888. | Date: April 10, 1842 | Reference: 3069408i
    Part of: Royal gallery of British art.
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    Envy up, scorn down : how status divides us / Susan T. Fiske.

    Fiske, Susan T. | Date: [2011], ©2011
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    A poor doctor takes the pulse of a rich, corpulent patient and announces that he is very ill. Coloured stipple engraving by J.J. after E.J. Pigal, c. 1840.

    Pigal, Edmé Jean, 1798-1872. | Reference: 16489i
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    A poor doctor takes the pulse of a rich, corpulent patient and announces that he is very ill. Lithograph after E.J. Pigal, c. 1840.

    Pigal, Edmé Jean, 1798-1872. | Date: [c. 1840] | Reference: 16491i
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