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Charitable Knowledge: Hospital Pupils and Practitioners in Eighteenth-Century London (Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine)
by Susan C. Lawrence
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (1996-04-26)
ISBN: 0521363551
EAN: 9780521363556
Dewy Decimal #: 610.94209033
Hardcover: 407 pages
Condition: Like New
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Product Description
Charitable Knowledge explores the interconnections among 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--St. Bartholomew, St. Thomas, Guy, the Westminster, St. George, the Middlesex, and the London--were crucial sites for educating surgeons, surgeon-apothecaries 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. Historians of science and medicine will want to read this book.
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