The history of the Medical College of Georgia / Phinizy Spalding.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Spalding, Phinizy.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical education--Georgia--Augusta--History.

Medical education.

Augusta (Ga.)--History.

Augusta (Ga.).

Medical College of Georgia (1833-1873)--History.

Medical College of Georgia (1833-1873).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (321 p.)

Edition:

Pbk. ed.

Place of Publication:

Athens : University of Georgia Press, c1987.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Phinizy Spalding traces the development of Georgia's oldest medical school from the initial plans of a small group of physicians to the five school complex found in Augusta in the late 1980s. Charting a course filled with great achievement and near-fatal adversity, Spalding shows how the life of the college has been intimately bound to the local community, state politics, and the national medical establishment. When the Medical Academy of Georgia opened its doors in 1828 to a class of seven students, the total number of degreed physicians in the state was fewer than one hundred. Spalding traces the history of the Academy through its early robust growth in the antebellum years; its slowed progress during the Civil War; its decline and hardships during the early half of the twentieth century; and finally its resurgence and a new era of optimism starting in the 1950s.

Contents:

pt. 1. Founding and the early ears

pt. 2. Civil War through the 1920s

pt. 3. Depression to the 1980s.

Notes:

Paperback edition, 2011.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613586025

9781280490798

1280490799

9780820342221

082034222X

OCLC:

759158824