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Making Medicine Scientific: John Burdon Sanderson and the Culture of Victorian Science
Terrie M. Romano
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Description for Making Medicine Scientific: John Burdon Sanderson and the Culture of Victorian Science
Hardback. 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. Num Pages: 240 pages, 13, 9 black & white halftones, 4 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; BG; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 522.
In Victorian Britain scientific medicine encompassed an array of activities, from laboratory research and the use of medical technologies through the implementation of sanitary measures that drained canals and prevented the adulteration of milk and bread. Although most practitioners supported scientific medicine, controversies arose over where decisions should be made, in the laboratory or in the clinic, and by whom-medical practitioners or research scientists. In this study, Terrie Romano uses the life and eclectic career of Sir John Burdon Sanderson (1829-1905) to explore the Victorian campaign to make medicine scientific. Sanderson, in many ways a prototypical Victorian, began his ... Read more
In Victorian Britain scientific medicine encompassed an array of activities, from laboratory research and the use of medical technologies through the implementation of sanitary measures that drained canals and prevented the adulteration of milk and bread. Although most practitioners supported scientific medicine, controversies arose over where decisions should be made, in the laboratory or in the clinic, and by whom-medical practitioners or research scientists. In this study, Terrie Romano uses the life and eclectic career of Sir John Burdon Sanderson (1829-1905) to explore the Victorian campaign to make medicine scientific. Sanderson, in many ways a prototypical Victorian, began his ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9780801868979
SKU
V9780801868979
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About Terrie M. Romano
Terrie M. Romano is working for the Canadian government. She is currently working on a history of carnivorous plants.
Reviews for Making Medicine Scientific: John Burdon Sanderson and the Culture of Victorian Science
An 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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more