The Laboratory Revolution in MedicineAndrew Cunningham, Perry Williams Cambridge University Press, 2002 M07 11 - 360 pages Laboratory medicine developed in the nineteenth century, principally in Germany, France, Britain, and the United States of America. While a number of scholars have studied various aspects of laboratory medicine in the nineteenth century, no attempts have hitherto been made to synthesise such work and to present a view of the whole subject. This book brings together leading researchers on the history of laboratory medicine in Europe and America. Each brings their special expertise to bear on the general subject of the nature and genesis of laboratory medicine. Together, they provide a much needed account of how medicine in Western industrial societies acquired its distinctive power and authority through association with the laboratory. These historical studies are followed by a short concluding section of 'Reflexions' by scholars from the fields of laboratory studies, philosophy of science, and gender studies. |
Contents
Laboratories medicine and public life in Germany 18301849 ideological roots of the institutional revolution | 14 |
Building institutes for physiology in Prussia 18361846 contexts interests and rhetoric | 72 |
The fall and rise of professional mystery epistemology authority and the emergence of laboratory medicine in nineteenthcentury America | 110 |
Anaesthetics ethics and aestheticsvivisection in the late nineteenthcentury British laboratory | 142 |
Scientific elites and laboratory organisation in fin de siecle Paris and Berlin the Pasteur Institute and Robert Kochs Institute for Infectious Diseases co... | 170 |
French military epidemiology and the limits of the laboratory the case of LouisFelixAchille Kelsch | 189 |
Transforming plague the laboratory and the identity of infectious disease | 209 |
The laboratory as business Sir Almroth Wrights vaccine programme and the construction of penicillin | 245 |
REFLEXIONS | 293 |
The costly ghastly kitchen | 295 |
The laboratory revolution in medicine as rhetorical and aesthetic accomplishment | 304 |
Gendered reflexions on the laboratory in medicine | 324 |
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