Gentlemen, scientists, and doctors : medicine at Cambridge 1800-1940 / Mark W. Weatherall.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weatherall, Mark.

Contributor:

Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.

Series:

History of the University of Cambridge. Texts and studies ; v. 3.

The History of the University of Cambridge. Texts and studies, 0960-2887 ; v. 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medicine--England--Cambridge--History--19th century.

Medicine.

Medicine--England--Cambridge--History--20th century.

History.

England--Cambridge.

Physical Description:

x, 341 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Woodbridge, Suffolk ; Rochester, N.Y. : Boydell Press : Cambridge University Library, 2000.

Summary:

This book offers the first full-length study of medical education at the University of Cambridge for nearly 70 years. Drawing on the extensive records in the university archives and contemporary periodical literature, it sets the development of the Cambridge medical school in the context of the history of medicine, science and higher education. The author begins with the preservation of the faculty in the face of early nineteenth-century attacks on privilege in medicine and higher education, presenting a detailed investigation of the reforms of the 1860s and 1870s which led to the creation of the laboratories in the experimental sciences such as physiology and pathology on which so much of the University's twentieth-century reputation was to rest. He then moves on to describe the evolution of this reformed faculty into the model of academic medicine that we recognise and follow today. In addition, the experiences of the medical students themselves are vividly brought to life.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-332) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

0851156819

OCLC:

42680249