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

by Horace W. Davenport

Overview

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 illustrating that Michigan was "not just any medical school." Many of the significant medical and scientific advances that originated at Michigan are described in detail.
Appearing in conjunction with the sesquicentennial of the Medical School, Not Just Any Medical School will appeal to those interested in the history of medicine and particularly to those with a connection to the University of Michigan.
Horace Davenport is William Beaumont Professor Emeritus of Physiology, University of Michigan.

Product Details

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)

Editorial Reviews

The enduring contribution of this volume—as its title suggests—is that it embodies what makes UM "not just any medical school." It is a labor of love, a dedicated chronicle of the devotion of faculty and other leaders like Horace Davenport to the institution. It is the work of a man who knows this institution perhaps better than anyone—its missions of training and mentoring students, pioneering new discoveries and new knowledge, providing the highest levels of care to all who need it, and partnering with the broader community to improve health and well-being. And it is the work of an institution that has been lucky enough to know people like Horace Davenport.

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