Time to Heal

American medical education from the turn of the century to the era of managed care

Kenneth M. Ludmerer (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

544 Seiten

2005
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-518136-4 (ISBN)

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The recipient of extraordinary critical acclaim, this magisterial book provides a landmark account of American medical education in the twentieth century, concluding with a call for the reformation of a system currently handicapped by managed care and by narrow, self-centred professional interests.

Kenneth M. Ludmerer describes the evolution of American medical education from 1910, when a muck-raking report on medical diploma mills spurred the reform and expansion of medical schools, to the current era of managed care, when commercial interests once more have come to the fore, compromising the training of the nation's future doctors. Ludmerer portrays the experience of learning medicine from the perspective of students, house officers, faculty, administrators, and patients, and he traces the immense impact on academic medical centres of outside factors such as World War II, the National Institutes of Health, private medical insurance, and Medicare and Medicaid. Most notably, the book explores the very real threats to medical education in the current environment of managed care, viewing these developments not as a catastrophe but as a challenge to make many long overdue changes in medical education and medical practice.

Panoramic in scope, meticulously researched, brilliantly argued, and engagingly written, Time to Heal is both a stunning work of scholarship and a courageous critique of modern medical education. The definitive book on the subject, it provides an indispensable framework for making informed choices about the future of medical education and health care in America.

Kenneth M. Ludmerer is a recipient of the Abraham Flexner Award for Distinguished Service to Medical Education of the Association of American Medical Colleges, the William Welch Medal of the American Association for the History of Medicine, and the Distinguished Alumnus Award of The Johns Hopkins University. He was also the winner of the 2004 William Welch Medal of the American Association for the History of Medicine for this book.

PART 1: FULFILLING THE SOCIAL CONTRACT: MEDICAL EDUCATION AS A PUBLIC TRUST AND THE CAPTURE OF PUBLIC CONFIDENCE; PART 2: MEDICAL EDUCATION IN THE ERA OF MULTIVERSITY: THE GROWTH OF RESEARCH AND SERVICE IN A PERIOD OF ABUNDANCE; PART 3: BREAKING THE SOCIAL CONTRACT: THE EROSION OF UNIVERSITY VALUES, THE DECLINE OF PUBLIC-SPIRITEDNESS, AND THE BEGINNING OF THE SECOND REVOLUTION IN MEDICAL EDUCATION

Zusatzinfo	numerous tables and line drawings
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 232 mm
Gewicht	739 g
Themenwelt	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
ISBN-10	0-19-518136-0 / 0195181360
ISBN-13	978-0-19-518136-4 / 9780195181364
Zustand	Neuware