Making Medical Doctors: Science and Medicine at Vanderbilt since Flexner - Couverture souple

Jacobson, Timothy C.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0817352430 ISBN 13 : 9780817352431

Editeur : University Alabama Press, 2005

Synopsis

A study of the union of science and medicine in a particularly illustrative institutional setting

Making Medical Doctors is not a conventional institutional history, but rather a study of the union of science and medicine in a particularly illustrative institutional setting. Its general subject is the institution where science and medicine most dramatically came together: the modern medical school and medical center. Its particular subject is the medical school and center of Vanderbilt University, which was rebuilt in the 1920s as a model for medical education and research. Making Medical Doctors also explores the intellectual and financial sources of institutional development: the worlds of Abraham Flexner, Frederick T. Gates, and Henry S. Pritchett, three foundation masters of the early 20th century. It examines closely the vanished medical world of that generation of doctors who reached the height of their influence in the period between the two world wars and describes how they actually did medicine, surgery, and science.

The convergence of science and medicine in the 19th and 20th centuries produced what we know today as modern medicine. The balance of power and interdependence between science and medicine have changed vastly from the 1920s and 1930s, as Vanderbilt’s story clearly illustrates.

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À propos de l'auteur

Timothy C. Jacobson is the editor of the Chicago Times Magazine.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University Alabama Press
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0817352430
• ISBN 13: 9780817352431
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 365
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