Physiology in the American Context 1850–1940

Front Matter....Pages i-viii
Toward a History of American Physiology....Pages 1-9
American Physiologists in German Laboratories, 1865–1914....Pages 11-46
Growth of American Physiology 1850–1900....Pages 47-65
Physiology of the Future: Institutional Styles at Columbia and Harvard....Pages 67-96
A. B. Macallum and Physiology at the University of Toronto....Pages 97-114
International Relations and Domestic Elites in American Physiology, 1900–1940....Pages 115-154
Biological and Medical Societies and the Founding of the American Physiological Society....Pages 155-176
Physiology, Biology, and the Advent of Physiological Morphology....Pages 177-193
General Physiology and the Discipline of Physiology, 1890–1935....Pages 195-207
Pathologists, Clinicians, and the Role of Pathophysiology....Pages 209-235
Industrial Fatigue and the Discipline of Physiology....Pages 237-262
Physiological Identity of American Sex Researchers Between the Two World Wars....Pages 263-278
Cardiac Physiology and Clinical Medicine? Two Case Studies....Pages 279-292
Instruments and an Independent Physiology: The Harvard Physiological Laboratory, 1871–1906....Pages 293-321
Research Materials and Reproductive Science in the United States, 1910–1940....Pages 323-350
Instruments, Techniques, and Social Units in American Neurophysiology, 1870–1950....Pages 351-369
Back Matter....Pages 371-403