Building schools, making doctors : architecture and the modern American physician /
"In the late nineteenth century, medical educators intent on transforming American physicians into scientifically trained, elite professionals swiftly recognized the value of medical school design for their reform efforts. Between 1893 and 1940, nearly every medical college in the country rebui...
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Pittsburgh :
University of Pittsburgh Press,
[2022]
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. An Alternative to Unification: The Institute Plan and the Division of the Medical School
- 2. Unification Triumphs: The Single Building for Preclinical Studies and the Medical School-Hospital
- 3. Donors, Architects, and Medical School Design
- 4. School Buildings and the Marketing of Modern Medical Education
- 5. Constructing a Profession: Cohesion and Hierarchy in the Medical School
- Epilogue
- Abbreviations for Archives
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Figure Sources and Credits
- Index