Download or read book Academic General Practice in the UK Medical Schools, 1948-2000 written by John Howie and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2011-05-16 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first collective record of the evolution of general medical practice as an academic discipline over half a century. This anthology captures the stories of the early struggles to set up university departments between visionary supporters and traditionalist blockers as well as the steadily increasing successes aided by a dedicated funding system. The accounts are written where possible by the people involved in the early developments of their subject. These tales are of vision, commitment and resilience and are interesting both in their own right and for the more general lessons they tell us about the processes of creating institutional change within a modern democracy.