Becoming a Physician: Medical Education in Great Britain, France, Germany, and the United States, 1750-1945

ISBN-13: 9780195062984 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 424 str.

Thomas Neville Bonner;Bonner

Opis

Written by eminent education scholar Thomas Neville Bonner, Becoming A Physician is a groundbreaking, comprehensive history of Western medical education. The only work of its kind, it covers the United States, Great Britain, France, and Germany. Comparative in focus, the narrative unfolds within the context of social, political, and intellectual transformations that occurred in Europe and North America between the Enlightenment and Nazi Germany. Viewing the late eighteenth century as a watershed in the development of medical education, Bonner begins by describing how earlier practices evolved in the 1800s with the introduction of clinical practices. He then traces the growth of laboratory teaching in the nineteenth century and the twentieth-century preoccupation with establishing a university standard of medical education. Throughout, Bonner pays particular attention to the students, chronicling their daily lives and discussing changes in the medical school population and the various biases-- class, gender, racial, and religious--students and prospective students faced.

Recenzje

One great strength of Bonner's superb book is its grasp of the many and distinct strands that have gone into the skein of medical education. Another virtue of this rarity, a genuinely comparative study, is Bonner's eye for change. Clear, concise and comprehensive, this study will long remain definitive.