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St Mary'sThe History of a London Teaching Hospital |
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Focusing on St. Mary's hospital, London's great teaching hospital and traditionally the pre-eminent site for medical education in England, E.A. Heaman traces the emergence of the modern scientific teaching hospital and the intellectual, social, and political forces shaping it. Examining the social problems connected with health and the political debates around these problems at both the local parish level and on the national stage, Heaman explains how and why hospitals like St Mary's - originally charitable institutions for the poor - began to admit middle-class patients and eventually came under a national health insurance scheme.
Surveying the role of medical science in transforming the hospital, she traces the appearance of research on the curriculum vitae of ambitious clinicians in the 1850s, the appointment of salaried scientists in the 1880s, the emergence of full-time clinical researchers in the early 1900s, and their gradually increasing influence over the teaching hospital. Carrying the analysis to the present day, she shows St Mary's growing participation in a developing medical public sphere that includes medical societies, a medical press, and granting agencies such as the Medical Research Council.
An intriguing account of the emergence of "big science" in medicine, St. Mary's provides insight into the transformations of medical science and care facilities over the last two centuries.
Surveying the role of medical science in transforming the hospital, she traces the appearance of research on the curriculum vitae of ambitious clinicians in the 1850s, the appointment of salaried scientists in the 1880s, the emergence of full-time clinical researchers in the early 1900s, and their gradually increasing influence over the teaching hospital. Carrying the analysis to the present day, she shows St Mary's growing participation in a developing medical public sphere that includes medical societies, a medical press, and granting agencies such as the Medical Research Council.
An intriguing account of the emergence of "big science" in medicine, St. Mary's provides insight into the transformations of medical science and care facilities over the last two centuries.
Details
Part of the McGill-Queen’s/AMS Healthcare Studies in the History of Medicine, Health, and Society (number 15 in series)
542 Pages, 6 x 9
125 photos
ISBN 9780773525146
December 2010
Formats: Paperback, eBook
"A remarkable tour de force of medical history in a social context. Heaman's scholarship is flawless - a base of exhaustive primary research filtered through vast knowledge of the literature of medical history and much more. At the same time, the book contains a richly textured, balanced, and complete narrative history of the hospital and its medical school, written in clear, jargon-free prose and with a splendid sense of anecdote and irony. This is historical work of very high calibre." Michael Bliss, author of William Osler: A Life in Medicine and The Discovery of Insulin
"It was a pleasure to read this historical account of a London teaching hospital. It is an excellent piece of historical writing and will stand out as an outstanding history of an institution." Jock Murray, Professor of Medical Humanities, Dalhousie MS Unit
"It was a pleasure to read this historical account of a London teaching hospital. It is an excellent piece of historical writing and will stand out as an outstanding history of an institution." Jock Murray, Professor of Medical Humanities, Dalhousie MS Unit
E.A. Heaman is an associate professor in the Department of History at McGill University.
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