A study of physiology in America, this places the development of American physiology in the cultural context of the period. Divided into three parts, the book covers social and institutional history; physiology in relation to other fields; and instruments, materials and techniques.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Toward a History of American Physiology. - I American Physiologists in German Laboratories, 1865 1914. - II Growth of American Physiology, 1850 1900. - III Physiology of the Future: Institutional Styles at Columbia and Harvard. - IV A. B. Macallum and Physiology at the University of Toronto. - V International Relations and Domestic Elites in American Physiology, 1900 1940. - VI Biological and Medical Societies and the Founding of the American Physiological Society. - VII Physiology, Biology, and the Advent of Physiological Morphology. - VIII General Physiology and the Discipline of Physiology, 1890 1935. - IX Pathologists, Clinicians, and the Role of Pathophysiology. - X Industrial Fatigue and the Discipline of Physiology. - XI Physiological Identity of American Sex Researchers Between the Two World Wars. - XII Cardiac Physiology and Clinical Medicine? Two Case Studies. - XIII Instruments and an Independent Physiology: The Harvard Physiological Laboratory, 1871 1906. - XIV Research Materials and Reproductive Science in the United States, 1910 1940. - XV Instruments, Techniques, and Social Units in American Neurophysiology, 1870 1950. - Contributors. - Author Index.
