Becoming a Physician: Medical Education in Britain, France, Germany, and the United States, 1750-1945
The author, a distinguished scholar and university administrator, complements his earlier To the Ends of the Earth: Women's Search for Education in Medicine (Harvard Univ. Pr., 1992) with a broader look at medical education. Bonner traces how such education evolved in four Western countries since the Enlightenment as their respective medical establishments gradually incorporated advances in natural sciences and developed a balance among theoretical, clinical, and laboratory approaches to instruction. Not merely an institutional study, Bonner's monograph describes the changing but always exhausting experiences of medical students and the glacial advances of women and minorities as they sought access to medical training. A scholarly and comprehensive analysis, Bonner's book is highly recommended for academic and medical libraries.Kathy Arsenault, Univ. of South Florida-St. Petersburg Lib.Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.--This text refers to theHardcoveredition.