Title: Making medicine scientific : John Burdon Sanderson and the culture of Victorian science /
Authors: Romano, Terrie M.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press,
Year: 2002
Subjects: Burdon-Sanderson, J.; Burdon-Sanderson, J.; Burdon-Sanderson, J; History of Medicine; History, 19th Century; Physicians; Medical sciences Great Britain History; Medicine Great Britain History; Physicians Great Britain Biography; Physicians Great Britain Biography.; History of Medicine Great Britain Biography.; History, 19th Century Great Britain Biography.; United Kingdom; United Kingdom.
Abstract: 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.
Contents: From evangelical to medical officer of health -- Choosing medicine -- Medical officer of health -- Making a career in medical research -- Before the germ theory : the cattle plague of 1865-1866 and the state support of pathology -- From clinician-researcher to professional physiologist : making the pulse visible -- Becoming a research pathologist : the rise of laboratory medicine in Britain -- Focusing on physiology : capturing the venus flytrap's electrical activity -- The medical sciences : critics and allies -- Physicians, antivivisectionists, and the failure of the Oxford School of Physiology -- A corner turned? : experimental medicine in late Victorian Britain -- Researchers associated with Burdon Sanderson in Britain.