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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.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Romano, Terrie M.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002.
Subjects:
Burdon-Sanderson, J. > (John), > Sir, > 1828-1905.
Burdon-Sanderson, J > (John), > Sir, > 1828-1905
Physicians > Great Britain > Biography.
Medicine > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Medical sciences > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Physicians.
Physicians > Biography > Great Britain.
History of Medicine, 19th Cent > Great Britain.
History, 19th Century > Great Britain.
History, 19th Century
Physicians
physicians.
United Kingdom
Electronic books.
Biography
collective biographies.
Biographies.
Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:0801876788
9780801876783
0801868971
9780801868979
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
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.

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