Science and the Practice of Medicine in the Nineteenth Century

Name: Science and the Practice of Medicine in the Nineteenth Century
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ISBN: 9780521272056

ISBN-10: 052127205X

ISBN-13: 9780521272056

Edition: 1994

Authors: W. F. Bynum, George Basalla, Owen Hannaway

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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,…

Book details

List price: $31.99
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 5/27/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.98" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 1.078
Language: English



List of illustrations


Preface


Acknowledgements



Medicine in 1790



Medicine in the hospital



Medicine in the community



Medicine in the laboratory



Science, disease, and practice



Medical science goes public



Doctors and patients



Conclusion: did science matter?


Bibliographical essay


Sources of quotations


Index