title: Science and the Practice of Medicine in the Nineteenth Century (Cambridge Studies in the History of Science)
author:  W. F. Bynum 
description: "...a very fine and important book that will doubtless be judged as definitive. It is wonderfully written, well organized and witty, and rests on impeccable scholarship resulting from an exhaustive examination of the literature." Kenneth Kiple, Nature<br /><br />"This is an excellent history of medicine, placing a familiar story in a wider context and doing justice to its genuine excitements." Anne Crowther, Times Literary Supplement<br /><br />"...This important piece of scholarship enriches the understanding of the evolution of medicine and the process of translating scientific knowledge into effective curative and preventive measures." G. Eknoyan, Science &amp; Technology<br /><br />"...brings together and makes accessible a vast amount of recent research. Discussions are lucid and often illuminating. The book moreover is available in a relatively inexpensive paperback format that should make it more attractive for teaching purposes. Anyone interested in the modern history of medicine will find this to be a valuable introduction to the field." George Weisz, JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association<br /><br />"...well-written scholarly study...." Advances: The Journal of Mind-Body Health<br /><br />"...a well-crafted survey of nineteenth-century medical science. It contains lots of interesting material, and it tackles the subject from a variety of angles that, if they lend the book a certain looseness, also make it useful for introducing students to a variety of topics." Thomas Broman, Journal of the History of Medicine<br /><br />"Science and the Practice of Medicine in the Nineteenth Century is a text that is highly recommended as an introduction to history of medicine for undergraduates. It should also be read by all historians of medicine for its thoughtful and original analysis of a major historiographical issue." Tony A. Appel, ISIS<br /><br />"A particular strength of the study is the description of how technology began to work its way into medical practice....This superb and masterful synthesis will be useful to all who read it." Howard Markel, Technology and Culture<br /><br />"...the book...is both a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the subject, and the strength of the book for the specialist reader is as a work in comparative history." Victorian Studies
zlib_text: Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History
  
  Series Editors
  
  Carsten Timmermann
  
  University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
  
  Michael Worboys
  
  University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
  
  The aim of this series is to illuminate the development and impact of medicine
  and the biomedical sciences in the modern era. The series was founded by the
  late Professor John Pickstone, and its ambitions reflect his commitment to the
  integrated study of medicine, science and technology in their contexts. He
  repeatedly commented that it was a pity that the foundation discipline of the
  field, for which he popularized the acronym ‘HSTM’ (History of Science,
  Technology and Medicine) had been the history of science rather than the
  history of medicine. His point was that historians of science had too often
  focused just on scientific ideas and institutions, while historians of
  medicine always had to consider the understanding, management and meanings of
  diseases in their socio-econo