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Book SynopsisRomano'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.
Trade ReviewAn important and highly readable life of John Burdon Sanderson... [including an] exquisitely textured account of his projects... Romano's beautifully written biography deftly integrates Burdon Sanderson and his chosen intellectual milieu. -- E. A. Heaman Canadian Bulletin of Medical History A full-length study of this influential figure in British medical science has finally appeared... Libraries will surely want to add it to their holdings. -- L. Margaret Barnett, PhD Journal of the American Medical Association Romano has performed a brilliant service for medical historians... a useful entry in the canon of science and public health, this little book is an antidote to the hubris of recent claims of accomplishment. Choice 2003 Making Medicine Scientific is a carefully researched and written work... It enlares our view of the power-struggle for autonomy over medicine by both doctors at the bedside and scientists in the laboratory and extends the picture of the relationship between science and medicine in the late nineteenth century. -- Stephanie Snow Institute of Historical Research
Table of ContentsContents: Acknowledgments Introduction PART I: From Evangelical to Medical Officer of Health ONE: Choosing Medicine TWO: Medical Officer of Health PART II: Making a Career in Medical Research THREE: Before the Germ Theory: The Cattle Plague of 1865-1866 and the State Support of Pathology FOUR: From Clinician-Researcher to Professional Physiologist: Making the Pulse Visible FIVE: Becoming a Research Pathologist: The Rise of Laboratory Medicine in Britain SIX: Focusing on Physiology: Capturing the Venus's-Flytrap's Electrical Activity PART II: The Medical Sciences: Critics and Allies SEVEN: Physicians, Anti vivisectionists, and the Failure of the Oxford School of Physiology EIGHT: A Corner Turned? Experimental Medicine in Late Victorian Britain List of Abbreviations Appendix: Researchers Associated with Burdon Sanderson in Britain Notes Index
