Article ID: CBB001210683

Using Bacteriology in Elite Hospital Practice: London and Cambridge, 1880--1920 (2011)

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The story of the relationship between diagnosis at the bedside and the bench has been filled with tensions by historians of medicine. However, unpublished sources such as hospital case notes, minute books and private notebooks provide evidence that elite physicians were enthusiastic about new diagnostic techniques. With case studies of St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, and Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, this paper explores debates around the establishment and financing of the laboratories and their staff, along with patterns of diagnostic practice. In particular, the use of bacteriology by Barts' physician, Samuel Gee, is compared to his public and private writing on laboratory science. The laboratory and pathologists were quickly and routinely used at Barts by elite physicians, even more so than at Addenbrooke's, which had links with the University of Cambridge, a university famous for laboratory research at this time.

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Authors & Contributors
Borghi, Luca
Bangham, Jenny
Bartlett, Robert
Bovin, Gary
Costa, Renato da Gama-Rosa
Dupree, Marguerite Wright
Journals
Journal of Medical Biography
Bulletin of the History of Medicine
Social History of Medicine
Medicina Historica
Historia Scientiarum: International Journal of the History of Science Society of Japan
História, Ciências, Saúde---Manguinhos
Publishers
University of Michigan
University of Southern California
McGill-Queen's University Press
Springer International
University of Pennsylvania Press
Concepts
Hospitals and clinics
Medicine
Bacteriology
Discipline formation
Medical education and teaching
Physicians; doctors
People
West, Charles
Bernoulli, Johann
Jackson, John Hughlings
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm von
Maudsley, Henry
Newton, Isaac
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
20th century
18th century
20th century, late
Places
London (England)
Great Britain
England
Paris (France)
United States
Brazil
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