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

Lawrence, Susan C.

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ISBN 10: 0521525187 ISBN 13: 9780521525183

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2002

Riassunto

Charitable Knowledge explores the formation of the teaching hospital in eighteenth-century London.

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Recensione

'In a study no less rich in its evocation of social change than assured in its grasp of medical history, Susan Lawrence traces the emergence of modern hospital medicine in London. Soon scholars will be wondering how they did without such a book for so long.' Roy Porter, Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine

'A thoroughly engaging and theoretically nuanced exploration of how hospital medicine became the wellspring of social, intellectual, and pedagogic authority in the medical world of eighteenth-century London. Written with clarity and subtlety ... Professor Lawrence has compellingly captured the cultural sea change from early modern to modern medicine.' John Harley Warner, Yale University

'Susan Lawrence's study of learning and practicing medicine in Georgian London is, quite simply, wonderful. Based on an unprecedented range of printed and manuscript sources, her volume skillfully dissects the whole vibrant medical scene. It is crammed with vignettes of the great and the ordinary and is an example of the social history of medicine at its very best.' W. F. Bynum, Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine

'I would thoroughly recommend this book as an excellent read and collation of medico-historical information.' John M. T. Ford, Lancet 'The sophisticated narrative not only displays the author's erudition and awareness of historical concerns, but is enhanced by well-presented quantitative information.' Caroline Hannaway, Medical History

'Susan C. Lawrence's culmination of a decade's worth of methodical and prodigious research into the cultural milieu of eighteenth-century London 'hospital medicine' has been well worth the wait.' Philip K. Wilson, Times Higher Education Supplement 'Lawrence's work is distinguished by its exhaustive approach to the careers and connections of the medical men who established the elite status of the London hospitals. Her approach is considerably more quantitative than many earlier writings on the hospitals, and the work is the more admirable in that it makes excellent sense of conventional reports which are frequently dry and uninformative when tackled simply as literary texts ... impressive account.' Anne Crowther, The Times Literary Supplement

' ... fascinating and very readable ...'. John Ellis, The Pharos

Descrizione del libro

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.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0521525187
• ISBN 13: 9780521525183
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 408
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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