William Hunter and the Eighteenth-Century Medical World

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Acknowledgements Introduction Part I. Life: 1. William Hunter: a surgeon and a gentleman Roy Porter 2. The happiness of riches C. Helen Brock Part II. Medical Education: 3. The role of apprenticeship in eighteenth-century medical education in England Joan Lane 4. Physicians, hospitals and career structures in eighteenth-century London W. F. Bynum 5. 'Invite the philosopher, as well as the charitable': hospital teaching as private enterprise in Hunterian London Toby Gelfand 6. Ornate physicians and learned artisans: Edinburgh medical men, 1726-1776 Christopher Lawrence 7. German medical education in the eighteenth century: the Prussian context and its influence Johanna Geyer-Kordesch 8. The politics of health and the institutionalisation of clinical practices in Europe in the second half of the eighteenth century Othmar Keel Part III. Anatomy and Physiology: 9. Vitalism in late eighteenth-century physiology: the cases of Barthez, Blumenbach and John Hunter Francois Duchesneau 10. William and John Hunter: breaking the Great Chain of Being W. D. Ian Rolfe Part IV. Obstetrics: 11. The pleasures of procreation: traditional and biomedical theories of conception Angus McLaren 12. William Hunter and the varieties of man-midwifery Adrian Wilson 13. The management of normal deliveries and the generation of William Hunter Edward Shorter 14. Gender, generation and science: William Hunter's obstetrical atlas L. J. Jordanova Index.