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Author Burrow, Gerard N., 1933-2013, author.

Title A history of Yale's School of Medicine : passing torches to others / Gerard N. Burrows
Published New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2002

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 368 pages) : illustrations
Contents Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Founding Years -- 3. Hard Times: The Dark Years -- 4. Flexner�s Report and Blumer�s Deanship: The Defining Years -- 5. “A Steam Engine in Pants�: The Boom Years -- 6. The Bubble Bursts: The Depression Years -- 7. The Medical School Goes to War -- 8. Peace and Readjustment -- 9. Expansion Years -- 10. Social Unrest: The Turbulent Years -- 11. The Department of Medicine -- 12. Public Health and the Greater Good -- 13. The State Hospital -- 14. Epilogue -- Notes
Summary Burrow tells the story of the Yale University School of Medicine, tracing its history from its origins in 1810, when it had four professors and 37 students, to its present status as one of the world's outstanding medical schools. It focuses on the important relationship of the medical school to the university, which has long operated under the precept that one should heal the body as well as the soul
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-356) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Medical colleges -- Connecticut -- History
Medical education -- Connecticut -- History
Schools, Medical -- history
Education, Medical -- history
MEDICAL -- Education & Training.
EDUCATION -- History.
Medical colleges
Medical education
SUBJECT Connecticut. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79074102
Connecticut
Subject Connecticut
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780300132885
0300132883
128173103X
9781281731036