William Hunter and the Eighteenth-Century Medical WorldW. F. Bynum, Roy Porter Cambridge University Press, 27.06.2002 - 424 Seiten Arising out of a conference commemorating the two hundredth anniversary of the death of William Hunter (1718-1783), this book explores the career of that highly successful physician, obstetrician, medical educator and man of culture against the backgrounds of the medical, intellectual, social and medical-institutional worlds of his time. Medicine in eighteenth-century London has been little explored and much misunderstood. This collection of essays uses Hunter's broad influence as a vehicle to examine such areas as medical education, hospitals and the incomes and sources of prestige of leading physicians. It offers new interpretations that challenge many longstanding orthodoxies about medicine in the Enlightenment, including the practices and standards of man-midwives and the role of the teaching hospital. Historians have all too readily viewed the eighteenth-century medical world through the expectations of the nineteenth -century hospital and medical professional. This volume shows how the eighteenth-century medical world may be understood in its own terms. |
Inhalt
William Hunter a surgeon and a gentleman | 7 |
The happiness of riches | 35 |
PART II MEDICAL EDUCATION | 55 |
The role of apprenticeship in eighteenthcentury medical education in England | 57 |
Physicians hospitals and career structures in eighteenthcentury | 105 |
Invite the philosopher as well as the charitable hospital teaching as private enterprise in Hunterian London | 129 |
Ornate physicians and learned artisans Edinburgh medical men 17261776 | 153 |
German medical education in the eighteenth century the Prussian context and its influence | 177 |
Vitalism in late eighteenthcentury physiology the cases of Barthez Blumenbach and John Hunter | 259 |
William and John Hunter breaking the Great Chain of Being | 297 |
OBSTETRICS | 321 |
The pleasures of procreation traditional and biomedical theories of conception | 323 |
William Hunter and the varieties of manmidwifery | 343 |
The management of normal deliveries and the generation of William Hunter | 371 |
Gender generation and science William Hunters obstetrical atlas | 385 |
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The politics of health and the institutionalisation of clinical practices in Europe in the second half of the eighteenth century | 207 |
ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY | 257 |
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