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Science and the Practice of Medicine in the Nineteenth Century

By W. F. Bynum

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1994
ISBN
0521251095, 9780521251099
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
21 MB (21807888 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Studies in the History of Science
Edition
1
Pages
301\310
Time added
2022-09-08 07:24:43

Description

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.

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