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The imperial laboratory : experimental physiology and clinical medicine in post-Crimean Russia /

Following a humiliating defeat in the Crimean War, the Russian Empire found herself exposed due to major deficiencies in her infrastructure. To gain from European scientific, technical and educational advancements, the Russian Government began to permit studies abroad and relaxed censorship, which b...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kichigina, Galina, 1958-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2009.
Colección:Clio medica (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ; 87.
Wellcome series in the history of medicine.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I. The German laboratory and 'scientific medicine' in the late 1850s and early 1860s, a Russian view: The old-new tradition
  • Physiologist-physicists: foundation of the discipline
  • A Viennese prelude: Sechenov's research at Ludwig's laboratory
  • Berlin wins over Paris and Vienna: Botkin's view on European clinics
  • 'Alt Heidelberg, du feine ... '
  • Part II. The St. Petersburg Medico-Surgical Academy and experimental science: Military medical education: the aftermath of the Crimea War
  • The winds of change: reformation of the Medico-Surgical Academy
  • The 'Medico-Chemical Academy': Zinin's laboratory
  • Synthesis and symphonies: Borodin's laboratory
  • 'Scientific medicine': Botkin's teaching clinic and laboratory
  • The new discipline of Russian physiology: Sechenov's laboratory
  • A few steps further: the operation of the physiological laboratory under Cyon
  • Part III. From physics and chemistry of the body to physical chemistry: Sechenov's research on blood gases and salt solutions
  • Russian universities in the sea of change, 1870-1886
  • Sechenov at Novorossiisk University: new laboratory, new challenges
  • A simple model: transition from blood-gas research to studies on salt solutions
  • Sechenov at St. Petersburg: 'Galvanic studies', a final proof
  • The context to Sechenov's study of solution: the Mendeleev-Ostwald debate on the theory of solutions
  • The universal law: expectations and disappointments.