The Investigative Enterprise

Experimental Physiology in Nineteenth-Century Medicine

William Coleman, Frederic L. Holmes

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Year: 2024
• Print ISBN: 9780520305724
• eBook ISBN: 9780520310353
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: Medical Theory, Practice & Reference

The seven distinguished contributors to this volume illuminate not only the history of the biological and medical sciences but also the relationship between institutes and ideas which characterized the explosion of scientific investigation, especially in Germany. Besides William Coleman and Frederic L. Holmes, they include Robert G. Frank, Jr., Timothy Lenoir, John E. Lesch, Kathryn M. Olesko, and Arlene M. Tuchman. Scientific investigation was not new to the nineteenth century, but it was during that period that it began to be carried out on a scale large enough to become crucial to the welfare of nations. Much remains to be learned about how the forms of organization characteristic of the modern investigative enterprise originated. This book explores such questions in relation to one of the dominant experimental sciences of the century, physiology. Each author shows, through the examination of a specific institute or a specific subject, that the interplay between research, pedagogy, personal vision, and state or public interests can be studied to particular advantage in localized settings. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1988.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Introduction William Coleman and Frederic L. Holmes
• CHAPTER ONE Prussian Pedagogy: Purkynë at Breslau, 1823-1839 William Coleman
• CHAPTER TWO From the Lecture to the Laboratory: The Institutionalization of Scientific Medicine at the University of Heidelberg Arleen M. Tuchman
• CHAPTER THREE The Paris Academy of Medicine and Experimental Science, 1820-1848 John E. Lesch
• CHAPTER FOUR Science for the Clinic: Science Policy and the Formation of Carl Ludwig's Institute in Leipzig Timothy Lenoir
• CHAPTER FIVE The Formation of the Munich School of Metabolism Frederic L. Holmes
• CHAPTER SIX The Telltale Heart: Physiological Instruments, Graphic Methods, And Clinical Hopes 1854-1914 Robert G. Frank, Jr.
• CHAPTER SEVEN Epilogue William Coleman and Frederic L. Holmes
• CHAPTER EIGHT Commentary: On Institutes, Investigations, and Scientific Training Kathryn M. Olesko
• Index