
American Campus Podcast
on the social and political history of higher education
American Campus Podcast
The 20th century medical school building boom with Katherine Carroll
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Lauren Lassabe Shepherd
On the medical school building boom of the early 20th century (1890-1940), and what it can tell us about the professionalization of academic medicine
Mentioned this episode:
- Katherine L. Carroll. 2022. Building Schools, Making Doctors: Architecture and the Modern American Physician. University of Pittsburgh Press.
- Amber N. Wiley. 2025. Model Schools in the Model City: Race, Planning, and Education in the Nation’s Capital. University of Pittsburgh Press.
- Margaret Grubiak. 2022. White Elephants on Campus: The Decline of the University Chapel in America, 1920-1960. University of Notre Dame Press.
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