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William Hunter and the eighteenth-century medical world

Essays on the career of William Hunter, physician, obstetrician, medical educator and man of culture
Print Book, English, 1985
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1985
Biography
xi, 424 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780521268066, 9780521525176, 0521268060, 0521525179
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Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I. Life: 1. William Hunter: a surgeon and a gentleman Roy Porter; 2. The happiness of riches C. Helen Brock; Part II. Medical Education: 3. The role of apprenticeship in eighteenth-century medical education in England Joan Lane; 4. Physicians, hospitals and career structures in eighteenth-century London W. F. Bynum; 5. 'Invite the philosopher, as well as the charitable': hospital teaching as private enterprise in Hunterian London Toby Gelfand; 6. Ornate physicians and learned artisans: Edinburgh medical men, 1726–1776 Christopher Lawrence; 7. German medical education in the eighteenth century: the Prussian context and its influence Johanna Geyer-Kordesch; 8. The politics of health and the institutionalisation of clinical practices in Europe in the second half of the eighteenth century Othmar Keel; Part III. Anatomy and Physiology: 9. Vitalism in late eighteenth-century physiology: the cases of Barthez, Blumenbach and John Hunter François Duchesneau; 10. William and John Hunter: breaking the Great Chain of Being W. D. Ian Rolfe; Part IV. Obstetrics: 11. The pleasures of procreation: traditional and biomedical theories of conception Angus McLaren; 12. William Hunter and the varieties of man-midwifery Adrian Wilson; 13. The management of normal deliveries and the generation of William Hunter Edward Shorter; 14. Gender, generation and science: William Hunter's obstetrical atlas L. J. Jordanova; Index.
First paperback edition: 2002
"The essays in this volume are revised versions of papers given at an international symposium to mark the two hundredth anniversary of the death of William Hunter, held at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine in London from 29 June to 1 July 1983"--Acknowledgements