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Science, medicine, and the state in Germany : the case of Baden, 1815-1871
- Title
- Science, medicine, and the state in Germany : the case of Baden, 1815-1871 / Arleen Marcia Tuchman.
- Author
- Tuchman, Arleen, 1956-
- Publication
- New York : Oxford University Press, 1993.
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| Text | Request in advance | R511.B33 T8 1993 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- viii, 200 pages : illustrations, map; 25 cm
- Summary
- This superb account of the development of scientific research in the state of Baden places the growth of science in nineteenth century Germany within a broad social and economic context. The book analyzes the progress of scientific research and its institutionalization in the state university system.
- Focusing on the experimental sciences, the book explores the introduction of the research ethic into the university medical curriculum, and the process by which laboratory science came to be an essential pedagogical tool in the education of future citizens of the state. The social and economic changes that ultimately transformed Germany into a modern industrial state are also considered. It was within this setting that laboratory training, once considered inappropriate for university studies, grew in status, and that dissatisfaction with the overly theoretical education traditionally offered by the universities began to increase.
- Thus, much like computers today, the scientific method in the nineteenth century came to represent an instrument for teaching not only specific skills but also a particular way of approaching, analyzing, and solving the problems of an industrializing economy. This compelling volume will be of interest to historians of science, medicine, and European studies.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (181-192) and index.
- Contents
- 1. University Reform and Medical Education at the University of Heidelberg, 1815-1830 -- 2. Political Changes and Educational Reforms in Baden, 1815-1848 -- 3. Scientific Medicine: The Development of the Program -- 4. Scientific Medicine at the University of Heidelberg - the 1840s -- 5. Revolution, Reaction, and the Politics of Education -- 6. The Battle for an Experimental Physiologist -- 7. The Institutionalization of Experimental Physiology -- 8. Experimental Physiology and the Medical Context -- 9. The Triumph of the Ideology of the Practical - the 1850s.
- ISBN
- 0195080475 (alk. paper) :
- LCCN
- 92023470
- OCLC
- ocm26361760
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries