Anatomy of a Medical School : A History of Medicine at the University of Otago, 1875-2000

The 10,000th graduate of the Otago Medical School was capped in December 2006. Since the 1970s it has in fact been three schools, based in Dunedin, Christchurch, and Wellington. Its graduates include many distinguished researchers and practitioners all over the world. Modeled on the Edinburgh School, and operating within a relatively new university, the Otago School had a long struggle for resources in a country that was still establishing its home economy. Often only the vision and determination of individual staff carried it forward, and the world in which it operated kept changing, with several revolutions in medicine, technology, and society. This book captures the school's highs and lows, and everything in between.