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Charitable knowledge : hospital pupils and practitioners in eighteenth-century London /
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&#...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1996.
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| Colección: | Cambridge history of medicine.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Introduction: Hospital medicine in eighteenth-century London. The setting. Transformations. Hospital medicine
- 2. The London hospitals: Virtue and value. Charity and the hospitals. Hospital practitioners
- 3. The Corporations, licensing, and reform, 1700-1815. The London corporations: Membership and licensing. Education at the halls and college. Education, war, and the colleges: Reform and responses, 1780-1815
- 4. Walking the wards: From apprentices to pupils. Apprentices and pupils, character and cash. On the wards: Increasing numbers, blurry boundaries. Learning on the wards
- 5. London lecturing: Public knowledge and private courses. Private and public: Business, knowledge, access, and authority. The London system: An overview. Entrepreneurs: Entertainment and expertise, 1700-1760. Bodies and businesses: Hospital lecturing, 1760-1820
- 6. Gentlemen scholars and clinical cases, 1700-1760. Public persona: Publishing. Publicity and polemics. Ancients and moderns.