Review: Building Schools, Making Doctors: Architecture and the Modern American Physician

Book Review| June 01 2024 Review: Building Schools, Making Doctors: Architecture and the Modern American Physician Katherine L. Carroll. Building Schools, Making Doctors: Architecture and the Modern American Physician. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2022, 444 pp., 138 b/w illus. $65 (cloth), ISBN 9780822947059 Michael Abrahamson Michael Abrahamson University of Utah Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (2024) 83 (2): 242–243. https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2024.83.2.242 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Michael Abrahamson; Review: Building Schools, Making Doctors: Architecture and the Modern American Physician. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 1 June 2024; 83 (2): 242–243. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2024.83.2.242 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentJournal of the Society of Architectural Historians Search While the history of institutional development in health care and higher education has been well documented, that of medical schools has evaded the attention of architectural historians until now. Katherine L. Carroll centers this typology in Building Schools, Making Doctors. With the medical school as her object of study, Carroll discusses the buildings themselves but also highlights the organizations and individuals who had an outsize influence on the evolution of this building type between 1890 and 1940. Yet another entry in the University of Pittsburgh Press's recent record of excellent publications in architectural history, Carroll's book narrates a substantial reduction in the number of schools over its period of study, but also the dramatic building boom that occurred at those schools that remained. Whether independent or associated with larger universities, medical schools during this era almost universally reformed their pedagogy to center hands-on clinical and laboratory experience, moving away... You do not currently have access to this content.