St. Mary's : the history of a London teaching hospital /
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| Author / Creator: | Heaman, E. A. (Elsbeth A.), 1964- |
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| Imprint: | Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press ; [Liverpool] : Liverpool University Press, c2003. |
| Description: | xxi, 519 p., [11] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps, ports. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services (Hannah Institute) studies in the history of medicine ; 15 |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5160110 |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | xxi, 519 p., [11] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps, ports. ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0773525130 0773525149 0853239681 0853239789 |
