First Medical College in Vermont
First Medical College in Vermont

Author: Frederick C (Frederick Clayto Waite

Publisher: Hassell Street Press

Published: 2021-09-09

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 9781014401205

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American Body Snatchers
American Body Snatchers

Author: Richard S. Ross III

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2024-08-07

Total Pages: 251

ISBN-13: 1476695016

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At the beginning of the 19th century, physicians teaching anatomy in New England medical schools expected students to have hands-on experience with cadavers. As the only bodies that could be dissected legally were convicted murderers, this led to a lack of sufficient bodies for study. These doctors and their students turned to removing the dead from graveyards and cemeteries for dissection. The first medical school in Washington, D.C. was founded in 1825, headed by a Massachusetts physician convicted of body snatching, and made the practice commonplace in the area. This history of body snatching in the 19th century focuses on medical schools in New England and Washington, D.C., along with the religious, moral, and social objections during the time. With research from contemporary newspapers, medical articles, and university archives, topics such as state anatomy laws and their effects on doctors, students, and the poor--who were the usual victims--are covered, as are perceptions of physicians and medical schools by the local communities.

The History of Medical Education
The History of Medical Education

Author: C. D. O'Malley

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2023-04-28

Total Pages: 546

ISBN-13: 0520313445

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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1970.

American Medical Schools and the Practice of Medicine
American Medical Schools and the Practice of Medicine

Author: William G. Rothstein

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 1987-10-29

Total Pages: 432

ISBN-13: 9780195364712

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In this extensively researched history of medical schools, William Rothstein, a leading historian of American medicine, traces the formation of the medical school from its origin as a source of medical lectures to its current status as a center of undergraduate and graduate medical education, biomedical research, and specialized patient care. Using a variety of historical and sociological techniques, Rothstein accurately describes methods of medical education from one generation of doctors to the next, illustrating the changing career paths in medicine. At the same time, this study considers medical schools within the context of the state of medical practice, institutions of medical care, and general higher education. The most complete and thorough general history of medical education in the United States ever written, this work focuses both on the historical development of medical schools and their current status.

An Odd Kind of Fame
An Odd Kind of Fame

Author: Malcolm Macmillan

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 582

ISBN-13: 9780262632591

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The true story of the first case to reveal the relation between the brain and complex personality characteristics.

New Haven's Civil War Hospital
New Haven's Civil War Hospital

Author: Ira Spar, M.D.

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2013-11-05

Total Pages: 267

ISBN-13: 1476614342

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As the Civil War's toll mounted, an antiquated medical system faced a deluge of sick and wounded soldiers. In response, the United States created a national care system primarily funded and regulated by the federal government. When New Haven, Connecticut, was chosen as the site for a new military hospital, Pliny Adams Jewett, next in line to become chief of surgery at Yale, sacrificed his private practice and eventually his future in New Haven to serve as chief of staff of the new thousand-bed Knight U.S. General Hospital. The "War Governor," William Buckingham, personally financed hospital construction while supporting needy soldiers and their families. He appointed state agents to scour battlefields and hospitals to ensure his state's soldiers got the best care while encouraging their transfer to the hospital in New Haven. This history of the hospital's construction and operation during the war discusses the state of medicine at the time as well as the administrative side of providing care to sick and wounded soldiers.