This volume presents new research and original synthesis on key aspects of medical instruction, theoretical and practical, from early medieval times into the present century. Academic and practical aspects are equally examined, and balanced attention is given to different sites of instruction, be it the university or the hospital.

Notes on Contributors Introduction 1. 'An Examined and Free Apothecary' Juanita Burnby 2. Sir George Newman and the American Way W.F. Bynum 3. The Scottish-Australian Connection 1850-1900 Laurence M. Geary 4. Medical Education in Later Medieval England Faye Getz 5. Comparative Difficulties: Scottish Medical Education in the European Context (c.1690-1830) Johanna Geyer-Kordesch 6. Producing Experts, Constructing Expertise: The School of Pharmacy of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, 1842-1896 S.W.F. Holloway 7. Theory of Medicine, Science of Life: The Place of Physiology Teaching in the Edinburgh Medical Curriculum, 1790-1870. Stephen Jacyna 8. Reading Medicine in Tudor Cambridge Peter Murray Jones 9. 'As If None Understood the Art that Cannot Understand Greek': The Education of Midwives in Seventeenth-Century England Helen King 10. Anatomy and Address: Creating Medical Gentlemen in Eighteenth-Century London. Susan C. Lawrence 11. Medical Education and Medical Reform Irvine Loudon 12. Knowledge Common and Acquired: The Education of Unlicensed Medical Practitioners in Early Modern London Margaret Pelling 11. Students Facing Boundaries: The Shift of Nineteenth-Century British Student Travel to German Universities and the Flexible Boundaries of a Medical Educational System Godelieve van Heteren 12. American Doctors in London during the Age of Paris Medicine John Harley Warner Index