Not Just Any Medical School: The Science, Practice, and Teaching of Medicine at the University of Michigan, 1850-1941

ISBN-13: 9780472110766 Publisher: University of Michigan Press Publication date: 09/07/1999 Edition description: Subsequent Pages: 400 Product dimensions: 8.50(w) x 11.00(h) x 1.20(d) Not Just Any Medical School details the establishment of the University of Michigan Medical School. It provides a picture of its students, curriculum, amphitheaters, laboratories, hospitals, and patients as seen through the eyes of its leading faculty members and documented by their published works, lecture notes, and other primary and secondary sources.The book begins with the selection of the first five professors and continues through the appointment of statesman and scientist Victor Vaughan as dean and his successors to 1941. Organized by specialty, the material is chronological within chapters. Illustrations include student and faculty scenes, hospital interiors and exteriors, and medical apparatus. The narrative includes numerous direct quotes from research papers, lectures, and letters illustratin