Discriminating the “Minuter Beauties of Nature”: Botany as Natural Theology in a Victorian Medical School (2017)
Looking at botany in an entirely different context, Meegan Kennedy examines the intellectual and institutional implications of botany’s role in a medical education. She uses Edward Forbes’s An Inaugural Lecture on Botany to illuminate the shifting value of botany as a science at midcentury. Contextualizing Forbes’s work within a larger tradition that resisted botany’s scientific value due to its cultural associations with sexuality, popular science, and feminine domestic pursuits, she shows how Forbes made a case for botany’s practicality as a source of ethical instruction for medical students. Kennedy’s essay illuminates the uneven history of scientific virtue by examining an argument for botany’s legitimacy that embraced both the morality inherent in an older model of natural theology and an emergent paradigm that privileged pragmatism in medical practice. (From Introduction, pages 8-9)
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