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Tickets to the Healing Arts
Carol Benenson Perloff
Daniel M. Albert
其他書名
Medical Lecture Tickets of the 18th and 19th Centuries
出版
Oak Knoll Press
, 2015
主題
Education / Schools / Levels / Higher
Education / Teaching / Methods & Strategies
Medical / Education & Training
ISBN
158456329X
9781584563297
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=j5TToAEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
Faculty, independent entrepreneurs, collected fees directly from medical students and in return, issued them tickets for admission to their course of lectures. Individual professors paid whatever overhead was due, such as rent, to the dean or provost and kept the remainder as profits. With few exceptions, this system prevailed at both private and university-affiliated schools. Medical faculty ran the medical schools, controlling admissions, the curriculum and graduation standards. Medical lecture tickets dating as far back as the 1760s survive as physical evidence of this proprietary system of medical education. The tickets were meant to be ephemeral, a paper that admitted a medical student to a course on the road to becoming a physician, but unlike a diploma, nothing intended for longevity. These tickets help trace the evolution of medical education in America, from the founding of the first medical school in 1765, to a system that fostered an abundance of 19th-century substandard schools and practitioners, to reforms that paved the way for the first-rate medical training of clinicians, educators and scientists in the 20th century and beyond. The tickets document institutions -- some that came and went, some that represent different philosophies about the healing arts. They evidence curriculum that changed to embrace new ideas and technologies for the medical sciences. As with all artifacts, medical lecture tickets essentially tell stories about people. Professors who issued the tickets and medical students who purchased them were individuals of diverse medical, historical, military, cultural and human interest and accomplishment. This catalogue unfolds nearly 200 of their stories from 100 tickets selected from the vast ticket collection of the University of Pennsylvania Archives and Records Center.
