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Medical History

St Mary's

The History of a London Teaching Hospital

by (author) E.A. Heaman

Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Initial publish date
Dec 2010
Category
History, General, Respiratory
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780773525146
    Publish Date
    Dec 2010
    List Price
    $40.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780773570863
    Publish Date
    May 2003
    List Price
    $110.00

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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.

About the author

E.A. Heaman teaches history at McGill University and is the author of Tax, Order, and Good Government: A New Political History of Canada, 1867-1917.

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