William Hunter and the Eighteenth-Century Medical World

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 François 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.