The imperial laboratory : : experimental physiology and clinical medicine in post-Crimean Russia / / Galina Kichigina.

• Superior document: Clio medica ; 87
• Author: Kichigina, Galina, 1958-
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam ;, New York : : Rodopi,, 2009.
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Series: Clio Medica 87.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (380 pages) :; illustrations, tables.
• Notes: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Following a humiliating defeat in the Crimean War, the Russian Empire found herself exposed due to major deficiencies in her infrastructure. To gain from European scientific, technical and educational advancements, the Russian Government began to permit studies abroad and relaxed censorship, which brought a new flood of literature into the country. These measures enormously facilitated the growth of Russian science, medicine and education in the late nineteenth century, taking the Empire into a fascinating era of laboratory research, a new cultural and intellectual tradition. The Imperial Laboratory tells the story of the lives and studies of the leading Russian and German clinician–experimenters who played critical roles in the integration of physics and chemistry into physiology and clinical medicine. A principal theme is the major transformations undergone in military medicine and education. Using a wide range of Russian and German primary sources, this book offers a unique English-language insight into Russian physiology and medicine that will be of interest to both historians and doctors, as well as anyone interested in Russian science and culture.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- List of Images -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- The Old–New Tradition -- Physiologist-Physicists: Foundation of the Discipline -- A Viennese Prelude: Sechenov’s Research at Ludwig’s Laboratory -- Berlin Wins over Paris and Vienna: Botkin’s View on European Clinics -- ‘Alt Heidelberg, du feine…’ -- Military Medical Education: The Aftermath of the Crimean War -- The Winds of Change: Reformation of the Medico-Surgical Academy -- The ‘Medico-Chemical Academy’: Zinin’s Laboratory -- Synthesis and Symphonies: Borodin’s Laboratory -- ‘Scientific Medicine’: Botkin’s Teaching Clinic and Laboratory -- The New Discipline of Russian Physiology: Sechenov’s Laboratory -- A Few Steps Further: The Operation of the Physiological Laboratory under Cyon -- Russian Universities in the Sea of Change, 1870–1886 -- Sechenov at Novorossiisk University: New Laboratory, New Challenges -- A Simple Model: Transition from Blood-Gas Research to Studies on Salt Solutions -- Sechenov at St Petersburg: ‘Galvanic studies’ – A Final Proof -- The Context to Sechenov’s Study of Solution: The Mendeleev–Ostwald Debate on the Theory of Solutions -- The Universal Law: Expectations and Disappointments -- Bibliography -- Index.