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In the late nineteenth century, medical educators intent on transforming American physicians into scientifically trained, elite professionals swiftly recognized the value of medical school design for their reform efforts. Between 1893 and 1940, nearly every medical college in the country rebuilt or substantially renovated its facility. In Building Schools, Making Doctors, Katherine Carroll reveals how the new buildings constructed during this fifty-year period did more than passively house a new system of medical training; they actively participated in defining and promoting a reformed pedagogy, modern science, and the new physician. Interdisciplinary and wide ranging, her study moves architecture from the periphery of medical education to the center, revealing a network of medical educators, architects, and philanthropists who believed that the educational environment itself shaped how students learned and the type of physicians they became. Carroll offers the first comprehensive study of the science and pedagogy formulated by new facilities, the influence of donors and architects, the impact of educational centers on the urban landscape and the local community, and the privileging of white men within the medical profession during this formative period for physicians and medical schools.

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A fascinating exploration of medical school construction between 1890 and 1940 and how architects, educators, and donors collaborated to promote a new version of scientific medicine and refashion professional identity. Richly researched, Building Schools, Making Doctors is an impressive analysis of the intercalation of pedagogy and design in the grounding of modern medicine. --John Warner, Yale University Katherine Carroll's Building Schools, Making Doctors breaks new ground in the architectural history of medicine. Rather than focusing on hospital design, which dominates the field (or subject area), she tours us through the remarkable spaces where physicians trained, showing us how architecture actively shaped medicine over five transformative decades. --Annmarie Adams, author of Medicine by Design: The Architect and the Modern Hospital, 1893-1943

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Katherine L. Carroll is an architectural historian based in Albany, New York. Support for her research has come from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, the Henry Luce Foundation/American Council of Learned Societies, the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, and the Rockefeller Archive Center. Carroll has presented widely on medical school design and taught most recently at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts.

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