Charitable Knowledge: Hospital Pupils and Practitioners in Eighteenth-Century London by Susan C. Lawrence - 1996

Cambridge Univ Pr, 1996. Hardback. Very Good/Very Good.

Cambridge:: Cambridge University Press, 1996., 1996. 8vo. [2], xiv, 390, [2] pp. Figs., index. Black gilt-stamped cloth, dust jacket. Ownership signature of Philip Wilson. Very good. ISBN: 0521363551 "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 - St Bartholomew's, St Thomas's, Guy's, the Westminster, St George's, 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. As hospital… Read More

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Cambridge Univ Pr, 1996. Hardcover. New. 407 pages. 9.50x6.50x1.25 inches.

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Cambridge University Press, 1996-04-26. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!