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• Author/Creator:Romano, Terrie M.
  
• Title:Making medicine scientific : John Burdon Sanderson and the culture of Victorian science / Terrie M. Romano.
  
• ISBN:0801868971 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  
• Published/Created:Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002.
  
• Physical Description:xi, 225 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
  

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  • Location:MEDICAL/HISTORICAL, Morse Reading Room, 2nd Floor
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  • Call Number: Biog Burdon Sanderson J 2002
    
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  • Call Number: R489.B875 R66 2002 (LC)
    
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• Format:Book
• BibliographyIncludes bibliographical references (p. [185]-217) and index.
  
• 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.
  
• Subjects:Burdon-Sanderson, J. (John), Sir, 1828-1905.
  Physicians--Great Britain--Biography.
  Medicine--Great Britain--History--19th century.
  Medical sciences--Great Britain--History--19th century.