Making Medicine Scientific
Subtitle: John Burdon Sanderson and the Culture of Victorian Science
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: May 8, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780801868979
Subjects: Biography: general; History Of Medicine; Scientists - General; c 1800 to c 1900; General; Sir,; Practice Of Medicine; Medicine; Biography / Autobiography; Medical; United Kingdom, Great Britain; Great Britain; History; Medical - General; Medical / History; Physicians; 19th century; Medical sciences; (John),; 1828-1905; Biography; Burdon-Sanderson, J
First sentence: In 1829 Tertius Lydgate, a gentleman and surgeon, moved to the English provincial town of Middlemarch.
Description: 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.