The Laboratory Revolution in Medicine

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List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction Andrew Cunningham and Perry Williams
1. Laboratories, medicine and public life in Germany, 1830–1849: ideological roots of the institutional revolution Timothy Lenoir
2. Building institutes for physiology in Prussia, 1836–1846: contexts, interests and rhetoric Richard L. Kremer
3. The fall and rise of professional mystery: epistemology, authority and the emergence of laboratory medicine in nineteenth-century America John Harley Warner
4. Anaesthetics, ethics and aesthetics
vivisection in the late nineteenth-century British laboratory Stewart Richards
5. Scientific elites and laboratory organisation in fin de siècle Paris and Berlin: the Pasteur Institute and Robert Koch's Institute for Infectious Diseases compared Paul Weindling
6. French military epidemiology and the limits of the laboratory: the case of Louis-Félix-Achille Kelsch Michael A. Osborne
7. Transforming plague: the laboratory and the identity of infectious disease Andrew Cunningham
8. The laboratory as business: Sir Almroth Wright's vaccine programme and the construction of penicillin Wai Chen
9. The costly ghastly kitchen Bruno Latour
10. The laboratory revolution in medicine as rhetorical and aesthetic accomplishment Nicholas Jardine
11. Gendered reflexions on the laboratory in medicine Hilary Rose
Index.

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