Making medicine scientific John Burdon Sanderson and the culture of Victorian science /

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Main Author: Romano, Terrie M.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2002.
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Table of Contents:
  • From evangelical to medical officer of health
  • Choosing medicine
  • Medical officer of health
  • Making a career in medical research
  • Before the germ theory : the cattle plague of 1865-1866 and the state support of pathology
  • From clinician-researcher to professional physiologist : making the pulse visible
  • Becoming a research pathologist : the rise of laboratory medicine in Britain
  • Focusing on physiology : capturing the venus's flytrap's electrical activity
  • The medical sciences : critics and allies
  • Physicians, antivivisectionists, and the failure of the Oxford School of Physiology
  • A corner turned? : experimental medicine in late-Victorian Britain
  • Researchers associated with Burdon Sanderson in Britain.