Becoming a Physician: Medical education in Britain, France, Germany, and the United States, 1750-1945

doi:10.1056/NEJM199605093341920

Volume 334:1275		May 9, 1996		Number 19

Becoming a Physician: Medical education in Britain, France, Germany, and the United States, 1750–1945

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By Thomas Neville Bonner. 412 pp. New York, Oxford University Press, 1995. $35. ISBN 0-19-506298-1.

The history of medical education, as Theodor Puschmann observedin his classic account of the subject (A History of MedicalEducation from the Most Remote to the Most Recent Times. London,H.K. Lewis, 1891), is not only a key to the understanding ofmedicine as a whole but also an important aspect of the broaderhistory of civilization. If this view is granted, it is strangeindeed that we have had to wait nearly a century for a competentsuccessor to Puschmann's often-cited work. In the past 25 years,some excellent collections of essays and several good nationalhistories . . . [Full Text of this Article]