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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455049303321

Autore

Romano Terrie M

Titolo

Making medicine scientific [[electronic resource] ] : John Burdon Sanderson and the culture of Victorian science / / Terrie M. Romano

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baltimore, : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2002

ISBN

0-8018-7678-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (240 p.)

Disciplina

610/.92

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Soggetti

Physicians - Great Britain

Medicine - Great Britain - History - 19th century

Medical sciences - Great Britain - History - 19th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.