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 b...

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.