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Making medicine scientific : John Burdon Sanderson and the culture of Victorian science / Terrie M. Romano.
Van Pelt Library R489.B875 R66 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Romano, Terrie M.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Burdon-Sanderson, J. (John), Sir, 1828-1905.
- Burdon-Sanderson, J.
- Physicians--Great Britain--Biography.
- Physicians.
- Medical sciences.
- History.
- Medicine.
- Great Britain.
- Medicine--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Medical sciences--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- History, 19th Century.
- United Kingdom.
- Sanderson, John Burdon.
- Medical Subjects:
- History, 19th Century.
- United Kingdom.
- Local Subjects:
- Sanderson, John Burdon.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 225 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002.
- 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 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [185]-217) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0801868971
- OCLC:
- 47644275
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