The laboratory revolution in medicine / edited by Andrew Cunningham and Perry Williams.

Other author Cunningham, Andrew.
Other author Williams, Perry, 1958-
Format Book
Publication InfoCambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Descriptionxi, 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 noteOriginally published: 1992.
General noteCompanion 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 noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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