Anatomy of a medical school; a history of medicine at the University of Otago 1875-2000.9781877372247 Anatomy of a medical school; a history of medicine at the University of Otago The University of Otago (Māori: Te Whare Wānanga o Otāgo) in Dunedin is New Zealand's oldest university with over 20,000 students enrolled during 2006. 1875-2000. Page, Dorothy. Otago University Press 2008 406 pages $59.95 Hardcover R747 Page (history, U. of Otago, New Zealand New Zealand (zē`lənd), island country (2005 est. pop. 4,035,000), 104,454 sq mi (270,534 sq km), in the S Pacific Ocean, over 1,000 mi (1,600 km) SE of Australia. The capital is Wellington; the largest city and leading port is Auckland. ) presents a history of the University of Otago Medical School, founded in 1875 and modeled after the University of Edinburgh's medical school. Chapters progress chronologically chron·o·log·i·cal also chron·o·log·ic adj. 1. Arranged in order of time of occurrence. 2. Relating to or in accordance with chronology. , focusing on the people that most affected each of the institution's three campuses (particularly deans throughout the decades), its internal development and resultant conflicts, its relationship to its Scottish counterpart, the major endeavors of its faculty and students, and the impacts of world events such as WWI WWI abbr. World War I WWI World War One and economic pressures of the 1980's on the school's work. The book also offers a portrait of the medical school today, whose 10,000th graduate was capped in 2006. This book is distributed in the US by ISBS ISBS International Society of Biomechanics in Sports ISBS International Society for Biophysics and Imaging of the Skin ISBS Illinois State Button Society ISBS Iowa State Button Society ISBS Idaho State Button Society . ([c]20082005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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