The history of medical education in Britain / / edited by Vivian Nutton and Roy Porter.

• Superior document: Clio Medica ; 30
• TeilnehmendeR: Nutton, Vivian,; Porter, Roy, 1946-2002,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam ;, Atlanta, Georgia : : Rodopi,, [1995]; ©1995
• Year of Publication: 1995
• Language: English
• Series: Clio Medica ; 30.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.
• Notes: Includes index.

Professional education forms a key element in the transmission of medical learning and skills, in occupational solidarity and in creating and recreating the very image of the practitioner. Yet the history of British medical education has hitherto been surprisingly neglected. Building upon papers con...

Table of Contents

• Preliminary Material
• Notes on Contributors / Vivian Nutton and Roy Porter
• Introduction / Vivian Nutton and Roy Porter
• ‘An Examined and Free Apothecary’ / Juanita Burnby
• Sir George Newman and the American Way / W. F. Bynum
• The Scottish-Australian Connection 1850-1900 / Laurence M. Geary
• Medical Education in Later Medieval England / Faye Getz
• Comparative Difficulties: Scottish Medical Education in the European Context (c. 1690-1830) / Johanna Geyer-Kordesch
• Producing Experts, Constructing Expertise: The School of Pharmacy of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, 1842-1896 / S. W. F. Holloway
• Theory of Medicine, Science of Life: The Place of Physiology Teaching in the Edinburgh Medical Curriculum, 1790-1870 / Stephen Jacyna
• Reading Medicine in Tudor Cambridge / Peter Murray Jones
• ‘As If None Understood the Art that Cannot Understand Greek’: The Education of Midwives in Seventeenth-Century England / Helen King
• Anatomy and Address: Creating Medical Gentlemen in Eighteenth-Century London / Susan C. Lawrence
• Medical Education and Medical Reform / Irvine Loudon
• Knowledge Common and Acquired: The Education of Unlicensed Medical Practitioners in Early Modern London / Margaret Pelling
• Students Facing Boundaries: The Shift of Nineteenth-Century British Student Travel to German Universities and the Flexible Boundaries of a Medical Educational System / Godelieve van Heteren
• American Doctors in London during the Age of Paris Medicine / John Harley Warner
• Index / Vivian Nutton and Roy Porter
• Index / Vivian Nutton and Roy Porter.