The Laboratory revolution in medicine / edited by Andrew Cunningham and Perry Williams
1992, First Edition. Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press. Provenance: Bookplate of previous owner. Near fine copy in the original colour-printed boards. Spine bands and panel edges very slightly dulled. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #385502
ISBN: 0521404843
Physical description: xi, 347 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. Notes: 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. 1989; and The Medical enlightenment of the eighteenth century / edited by Andrew Cunningham and Roger French. 1990. Includes bibliographical references and index. 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. (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.
Subjects: 1800-1899
19th Century. 20th Century
Diagnosis, Laboratory History 19th century.
Medicine Research History 19th century. History, 19th Century. Laboratories history. Médecine Recherche 19e siècle.
Diagnostic biologique 19e siècle. Laboratoires.
Médecine 19e siècle.
Diagnosis, Laboratory History 19th century.
Medicine Research History 19th century. Clinical Laboratory Techniques history 19th century. History of medicine, 19th cent. Europe. History of medicine, 19th cent. United States. Laboratories history Europe. Laboratories history United States History, 19th Century Europe. History, 19th Century United States. Laboratories history Europe. Laboratories history United States. Public health. Disease. History of Medicine, 19th Cent. Europe.
Price: €60.00