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

Romano's detailed portrayal reveals a fascinating figure who embodied the untidy nature of the Victorian age's shift from an intellectual system rooted in religion to one based on science.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Romano, Terrie M.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.