Charitable Knowledge

by Susan C. Lawrence

Charitable Knowledge explores the interconnections among medical teaching, medical knowledge and medical authority in eighteenth-century London. The metropolis lacked a university until the nineteenth century, so the seven major voluntary hospitals--St. Bartholomew, St. Thomas, Guy, the Westminster, St. George, the Middlesex, and the London--were crucial sites for educating surgeons, surgeon-apothecaries and visiting physicians. Lawrence explains...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521363551
• ISBN13: 9780521363556
• Release Date: April 1996
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.2"