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Chargement... Doctors on Horseback: Seven Pioneers of American Medicine (1937)par James Thomas Flexner
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The man in the street would not, perhaps, recognize all the names of the brilliant scientists whose careers and personalities animate this book, but doctors know them. Morgan, who founded the first medical school in American and, fighting beside Washington, was ruined b the petty politics of the Revolution; McDowell, who, although on the fringe of the wilderness, dared the operation that prepared the way for all abdominal surgery; Rush, the equivocal personality who, for better or worse, dominated American medicine for more than fifty years; Beaumont, who, saving a life, won a living laboratory; Drake, who brought modern medicine to the New West; Long and Morton, who banished pain from surgery and earned it for themselves - these men are honored in their profession today. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Abraham Flexner was an educator, like Drake he taught in Louisville Kentucky and worked to improve education. Flexner was concerned with education in general while Drake cared about medical education in particular. In 1908 Abraham Flexner was picked by the Carnegie Institute to lead a study on professional education in the United States. Although he had never attended or worked in a medical school he willingly took the assignment. Because the Carnegie Institute was best known for handing out large grants Flexner received full cooperation from the nation’s medical schools. The 1910 Flexner Report exposed the problems of “for profit” education and changed the landscape of medical education in the United States and the world. Flexner mentioned Drake in the report and adopted recommendations that Drake had made over a half century before. How, I wondered, would Abraham’s nephew treat Drake?
I should not have bothered. Like most US history written before the 1960’s this was simply another volume of uncritical WASP mythology. If you are interested in really learning about doctors on horseback look at Washington’s Medical Apartheid, Nuland’s The Doctors' Plague, Rothstein’s American Medical Schools and the Practice of Medicine, or Starr’s The Social Transformation of American Medicine. Don’t waste your time with this book. ( )