Making medicine scientific John Burdon Sanderson and the culture of Victorian science / [electronic resource] :
Terrie M. Romano.
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2002.
- xi, 225 p. : ill.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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's 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.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Burdon-Sanderson, J. Sir, 1828-1905.
Physicians--Great Britain--Biography. Medicine--History--Great Britain--19th century. Medical sciences--History--Great Britain--19th century.