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Scientific Method for Medical Practitioners: The Case Method of Teaching Pathology in Early Twentieth-Century Edinburgh (2007)

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Medicine Pathology Medical education and teaching 20th century, early Scotland University of Edinburgh

summary: The appointment of James Lorrain Smith as first full-time professor of pathology at the University of Edinburgh in 1912 led to a series of reforms in pathology teaching there. Most significant was the inception of what Lorrain Smith called the case method of teaching pathology, which used the investigation of clinical cases as the basis for a series of exercises in clinico-pathological correlation. This paper examines the social and cognitive organization of the case method of teaching, and shows how such exercises were expected to inform the students' future medical training and practice. In so doing, it also throws light on the relationship between medical science and clinical practice that obtained in Edinburgh at that time.

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Authors & Contributors
Garbarino, Maria Carla
Button, Clare
Patrick Scott
Luisa Ferrari
Zhang, Daqing
Wrigley, Richard
Journals
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Medicina nei Secoli - Arte e Scienza
Journal of Medical Biography
Dynamis: Acta Hispanica ad Medicinae Scientiarumque Historiam Illustrandam
Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science
Medical History
Publishers
Rodopi
Sussex Academic Press
Edinburgh University Press
Boston Medical Library in the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Concepts
Medicine
Pathology
Medical education and teaching
Disease and diseases
Surgery
Physicians; doctors
People
Bennett, John Hughes
Ewart, James Cossar
Wong, Fun
Wilkie, David Percival Dalbreck
Smith, Theobald
Ravetllat Estech, Joaquim
Time Periods
20th century, early
19th century
18th century
20th century
Places
Scotland
Great Britain
Edinburgh
Italy
British Isles
Catalonia (Spain)
Institutions
University of Edinburgh
Animal Breeding Research Department (University of Edinburgh)
Edinburgh Physiological Society
National Health Service (Great Britain)
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