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Alun Roberts, The Welsh National School of Medicine 1893-1931: the Cardiff years, Cardiff, University of Wales Press, 2008, pp. xxiv, 389, illus., £55.00 (hardback 978-0-7083-2174-4).
Welsh medical education has been poorly served by historians, something which was partly rectified in the three volumes on the history of Welsh universities published by Williams and Morgan in the 1990s. While Alun Roberts claims that these gave proper treatment to the history of the medical school, Williams suggested that the Welsh School of Medicine deserved a separate history. Roberts, a former registrar of the school and a trained historian, took up the challenge.
The Cardiff Medical School, as it was originally known, was established in 1893, ten years after the creation of the University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire. Arguments put forward in support of this included the economic, linguistic and moral advantages of...