The laboratory revolution in medicine / edited by Andrew Cunningham and Perry Williams.
| Other author | Cunningham, Andrew. |
| Other author | Williams, Perry, 1958- |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2002. |
| Description | xi, 347 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Laboratories, medicine and public life in Germany, 1830-1849: ideological roots of the institutional revolution / Timothy Lenoir -- Building institutes for physiology in Prussia, 1836-1846: contexts, interests and rhetoric / Richard L. Kremer -- Fall and rise of professional mystery: epistemology, authority and the emergence of laboratory medicine in nineteenth-century America / John Harley Warner -- Anaesthetics, ethics and aesthetics: vivisection in the late nineteenth-century British laboratory / Stewart Richards -- Scientific elites and laboratory organisation in fin de siecle Paris and Berlin: the Pasteur Institute and Robert Koch's Institute for Infectious Diseases compared / Paul Weindling -- French military epidemiology and the limits of the laboratory: the case of Louis-Felix-Achille Kelsch / Michael A. Osborne -- Transforming plague: the laboratory and the identity of infectious disease / Andrew Cunningham -- Laboratory as business: Sir Almroth Wright's vaccine programme and the construction of penicillin / Wai Chen. |
| Contents | (cont) Costly ghastly kitchen / Bruno Latour -- Laboratory revolution in medicine as rhetorical and aesthetic accomplishment / Nicholas Jardine -- Gendered reflexions on the laboratory in medicine / Hilary Rose. |
| General note | Originally published: 1992. |
| General note | Companion v. to: The medical renaissance of the sixteenth century / edited by A. Wear, R.K. French, and I.M. Lonie. 1985; The medical revolution of the seventeenth century / edited by Roger French and Andrew Wear. 1985; and The medical enlightement of the eighteenth century / edited by Andrew Cunningham and Roger French. 1990. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN | 0521524504 : |
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| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Laupus | Books - Stacks | WZ 60 L123 2002 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |