Charitable Knowledge: Hospital Pupils and Practitioners in Eighteenth-Century London

Charitable Knowledge explores the interconnections among medical teaching, medical knowledge and medical authority in eighteenth-century London. The metropolis lacked a university until the nineteenth century, so the seven major voluntary hospitals—St. Bartholomew, St. Thomas, Guy, the Westminster, St. George, the Middlesex, and the London—were crucial sites for educating surgeons, surgeon-apothecaries and visiting physicians. Lawrence explains how charity patients became teaching objects, ...