In recent decades, researchers have studied the cultures of medicine and
the ways in which context and identity shape both individual experiences
and structural barriers in medical education. The essays in this
collection offer new insights into the deep histories of these
processes, across time and around the globe. Transforming Medical
Education compiles twenty-one historical case studies that foreground
processes of learning, teaching, and defining medical communities in
educational contexts. The chapters are organized around the themes of
knowledge transmission, social justice, identity, pedagogy, and the
surprising affinities between medical and historical practice. By
juxtaposing original research on diverse geographies and eras - from
medieval Japan to twentieth-century Canada, and from colonial Cameroon
to early Republican China - the volume disrupts traditional
historiographies of medical education by making room for schools of
medicine for revolutionaries, digital cadavers, emotional medical
students, and the world's first mandatory Indigenous community placement
in an accredited medical curriculum. This unique collection of
international scholarship honours historian, physician, and professor
Jacalyn Duffin for her outstanding contributions to the history of
medicine and medical education. An invaluable scholarly resource and
teaching tool, Transforming Medical Education offers a provocative study
of what it means to teach, learn, and belong in medicine.
