Article ID: CBB000042339

The “Glasgow School” of Paton, Findlay and Cathcart: Conservative thought in chemical physiology, nutrition, and public health (1989)

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Description “In the early decades of the twentieth century, the `Glasgow School' of D.N. Paton, L. Findlay and E.P. Cathcart developed a distinctive approach to the scientific study of nutrition and to the social application of scientific knowledge. They adhered to the practice of chemical physiology, which they defended against the encroachment of a reductionist, modernizing biochemistry. In the face of rival claims from the emergent professional biomedical scientists, Paton, Findlay and Cathcart upheld a more traditional view of medical education and the relationship between the doctor and the laboratory scientist. They also lent their medical and scientific authority to the then Government's policy of minimal intervention in the condition of the poor, employing arguments hostile to rational, scientistic reform.” From the abstract.


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Authors & Contributors
Zon, Gerald
Epstein, Randi Hutter
Weaver, Lawrence T.
Vaughan, Megan
Stoff, Heiko
Prebble, John N.
Concepts
Metabolism; physiological chemistry
Biology
Medicine
Hormones
Biochemistry
Organisms
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
21st century
20th century, late
20th century, early
17th century
Places
Germany
British Isles
Glasgow (Scotland)
South Africa
Berlin (Germany)
Great Britain
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