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Michael Foster and the Cambridge School of Physiology: The Scientific Enterprise in Late Victorian Society
By (Author) Gerald L. Geison
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
28th June 2016
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
612.0092
Hardback
426
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
765g
Despite great ferment and activity among historians of science in recent years, the history of physiology after 1850 has received little attention. Gerald Geison makes an important contribution to our knowledge of this neglected area by investigating the achievements of English physiologists at the Cambridge School from 1870 to 1900. He describes i