Contents

pp v-vi

List of illustrations

pp vii-viii

Acknowledgements

pp ix-x

List of abbreviations

pp xi-xii

Introduction

pp 1-10

Part I - Foundations 1123–1880

pp 11-12

1 - A slow evolution: institutionalising education

pp 13-44

2 - Rise and fall of the ‘Abernethian’ school

pp 45-75

3 - ‘A wise and liberal desire to improve’: mid-Victorian medical education

pp 76-112

Part II - Science and learning 1880–1939

pp 113-114

4 - Scientific beginnings

pp 115-145

5 - ‘Leaders of educational purpose’: the rise of academic medicine

pp 146-182

6 - Deficiencies revealed: teaching in the interwar period

pp 183-217

7 - ‘Bould and sawcye carryadge’: mayhem and medical students, 1662–1939

pp 218-258

Part III - War and reconstruction 1939–68

pp 259-260

8 - A college at war

pp 261-295

9 - ‘No grounds for disqualification’: women and medical education at St Bartholomew’s

pp 296-312

10 - ‘To produce a complete doctor’: rebuilding and rethinking medical education

pp 313-348

Part IV - After Todd 1968–95

pp 349-350

11 - ‘The way forward’?

pp 351-376

12 - Training tomorrow’s doctors

pp 377-402

Epilogue: Tomlinson and merger

pp 403-418

Select bibliography

pp 419-444

Index

pp 445-464