Science and the Practice of Medicine in the Nineteenth Century

ISBN-13: 9780521272056 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 304 str.

Chs Bynum; W. F. Bynum; George Basalla

Opis

In this wide ranging survey, W.F. Bynum examines the parallel development of biomedical sciences (such as physiology, pathology, bacteriology and immunology) and of clinical practice and preventive medicine in nineteenth-century Europe and North America. By examining the contributions of key individuals, such as Louis Pasteur, R.T.H. Laennec, Claude Bernard, Edwin Chadwick, and Rudolf Virchow, and important institutions, Professor Bynum shows how science played a vital role in transforming medical education and medical care, and how the medical profession ultimately benefited from the public visibility of medical science in the latter decades of the nineteenth century. Historians, sociologists, and health professionals should find much of interest in this book.

Recenzje

"...the book...is both a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the subject, and the strength of the book for the specialist reader is as a work in comparative history." Victorian Studies

Spis treści

List of illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Medicine in 1790; 2. Medicine in the hospital; 3. Medicine in the community; 4. Medicine in the laboratory; 5. Science, disease, and practice; 6. Medical science goes public; 7. Doctors and patients; 8. Conclusion: did science matter?; Bibliographical essay; Sources of quotations; Index.