Charitable Knowledge - Hospital Pupils and Practitioners in Eighteenth-Century London

Zusammenfassung Charitable Knowledge explores the formation of the teaching hospital in eighteenth-century London. The metropolis lacked a university until the nineteenth century! so the seven major voluntary hospitals were crucial sites for educating surgeons and visiting physicians. Lawrence explains how charity patients became teaching objects! and how hospitals became medical schools. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of tables and figures; Preface; 1. Introduction: hospital medicine in eighteenth-century London; Part I. Institutions and Education: 2. The London hospitals: virtue and value; 3. The corporations, licensing and reform, 1700-1815; 4. Walking the wards: from apprentices to pupils; 5. London lecturing: public knowledge and private courses; Part II. Community and Knowledge: 6. Gentlemen scholars and clinical cases, 1700-60; 7. London hospital men and a medical community, 1760-1815; 8. Hospital men make medical knowledge, 1760-1815; Conclusion; Appendices; Notes; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Susan C. Lawrence, Susan C. (University of Iowa) Lawrence
• Assisted by: Colin Jones (Editor), Charles Rosenberg (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.06.2002
• EAN: 9780521525183
• ISBN: 978-0-521-52518-3
• No. of pages: 408
• Series: Cambridge Studies in the Histo
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General