HIST 249 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Sphygmograph, Yellow Fever, Germ Theory Of Disease
7 Feb 2018
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The modern medical paradigm: the laboratory revolution. Availability of large numbers of patients in urban hospitals. Post revolutionary institutions unify medicine and surgery knowledge production. Large communities of clinical scientists now seeking to advance medical knowledge. New ideals of scientific objectification: lesions being observed, statistical approach not full proof. Big change was that by the 1850/60s new ideal was widely popular. Laboratories became the symbol of the most advanced medical and biological thinking of the period. Became increasingly central, not only as a place to advance knowledge but as symbols. O(cid:374)e of (cid:373)ost fa(cid:373)ous (cid:449)as lie(cid:271)ig"s la(cid:271)orator(cid:455) at gisa. Especially germany there were a lot of labs: because of competition between different german states (cid:894)(cid:449)as(cid:374)"t u(cid:374)ited (cid:455)et(cid:895, located in universities medical schools. Laboratory medicine was linked to specialized institutions of research. Not all labs were large and clean pasteur"s (cid:449)as (cid:448)er(cid:455) (cid:373)ess(cid:455) a(cid:374)d u(cid:374)orga(cid:374)ized. Germany (universities) invest most heavily in laboratories.
