Charitable Knowledge: Hospital Pupils and Practitioners in Eighteenth-Century London (Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Charitable Knowledge: Hospital Pupils and Practitioners in Eighteenth-Century London (Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine) Book

Charitable Knowledge explores the interconnections between medical teaching, medical knowledge and medical authority 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. She demonstrates that hospital practitioners gradually gained authority within an emerging medical community, transforming the old tripartite structure into a loosely unified group of de facto general practitioners dominated by hospital men.Read More

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  • 0521363551
  • 9780521363556
  • Susan C. Lawrence
  • 26 April 1996
  • Cambridge University Press
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 407
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