did-you-know? rent-now

Amazon no longer offers textbook rentals. We do!

did-you-know? rent-now

Amazon no longer offers textbook rentals. We do!

We're the #1 textbook rental company. Let us show you why.

9780765806154

Experimental Medicine

by
  • ISBN13:

    9780765806154

  • ISBN10:

    0765806150

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Nonspecific Binding
  • Copyright: 1999-07-31
  • Publisher: Routledge

Note: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.

Purchase Benefits

  • Free Shipping Icon Free Shipping On Orders Over $35!
    Your order must be $35 or more to qualify for free economy shipping. Bulk sales, PO's, Marketplace items, eBooks and apparel do not qualify for this offer.
  • eCampus.com Logo Get Rewarded for Ordering Your Textbooks! Enroll Now
  • Write a Review Icon Write a Review
List Price: $48.95 Save up to $18.11
  • Rent Book $30.84
    Add to Cart Free Shipping Icon Free Shipping

    TERM
    PRICE
    DUE
    USUALLY SHIPS IN 3-5 BUSINESS DAYS
    *This item is part of an exclusive publisher rental program and requires an additional convenience fee. This fee will be reflected in the shopping cart.

Supplemental Materials

What is included with this book?

Summary

Among great men, Claude Bernard should be counted fortunate in that he has not become a mythical figure. Pasteur's discoveries are hardly more remarkable, though their immediate influence has been much greater, and his horizon was incontestably less broad. But Bernard remains a plain man, highly distinguished, but not obscured by the growth of a legend. His physiological researches may have immortalized his name, but Experimental Medicine never exerted the influence which it promised. What Bernard saw as the future of physiology remained for decades obscured, so his writings were only half understood. His influence, however, was exerted far beyond medicine.Stewart Wolf suggests that Claude Bernard's genius in physiological experimentation is similar to the extraordinary Sherlock Holmes' capacity to solve crimes and William Osler's uncanny abilities in clinical diagnosis. Like both of those creative searchers, Claude Bernard typically focused on findings that did not accord with prevailing theory. His curiosity led him to attempt to explain the finding by a tentative hypothesis; he would then devise an experiment. Although he sought

Table of Contents

Introduction To The Transaction Edition vii
Stewart Wolf
Introduction To The 1927 Edition xi
L. J. Henderson
Claude Bernard xix
Paul Bert
Author's Preface 1(4)
PART ONE EXPERIMENTAL REASONING
Observation and Experiment
5(22)
The A Priori Idea and Doubt in Experimental Reasoning
27(32)
PART TWO EXPERIMENTATION WITH LIVING BEINGS
Experimental Considerations Common to Living Things and Inorganic Bodies
59(28)
Experimental Considerations Peculiar to Living Beings
87(64)
PART THREE APPLICATIONS OF THE EXPERIMENTAL METHOD TO THE STUDY OF VITAL PHENOMENA
Examples of Experimental Physiological Investigation
151(21)
Examples of Experimental Physiological Criticism
172(18)
Investigation and Criticism as Applied to Experimental Medicine
190(6)
Philosophic Obstacles Encountered by Experimental Medicine
196

Supplemental Materials

What is included with this book?

The New copy of this book will include any supplemental materials advertised. Please check the title of the book to determine if it should include any access cards, study guides, lab manuals, CDs, etc.

The Used, Rental and eBook copies of this book are not guaranteed to include any supplemental materials. Typically, only the book itself is included. This is true even if the title states it includes any access cards, study guides, lab manuals, CDs, etc.

Rewards Program