From medical chemistry to biochemistry - Robert E. Kohler
the making of a biomedical discipline
KORTE INHOUD
This penetrating case study of institution building and entrepreneurship in science shows how a minor medical speciality evolved into a large and powerful academic discipline. Drawing extensively on little-used archival sources, the author analyses in detail how biomedical science became a central part of medical training and practice. The book shows how biochemistry was defined as a distinct discipline by the programmatic vision of individual biochemists and of patrons and competitors in related disciplines. It shows how discipline builders used research programmes as strategies that they adapted to the opportunities offered by changing educational markets and national medical reform movements in the United States, Britain and Germany. The author argues that the priorities and styles of various departments and schools of biochemistry reflect systematic social relationships between that discipline and biology, chemistry and medicine. Science is shaped by its service roles in particular local contexts: This is...
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1982Uitgever: Cambridge University Press399 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 0521243122ISBN-13: 9780521243124Koop dit boek tweedehands
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Original black cloth. x,400 pp.; 23.5x15.5 cm. " Cambridge Monographs on the History of Medicine " Text in English. - (traces of removed tickets, stamp on edge, stamps on rear title page) Otherwise very good, see picture 740 [Auteur: Kohler, Robert E.] [Uitgever: Cambridge University Press] [Jaar: 1982] [Titel: From Medical Chemistry to Biochemistry: The Making of a Biomedical Discipline.]
