ABSTRACT
This volume is divided according to moral themes within medicine and science. The sources represent dominant notes within the culture of knowledge production that capture the moral/emotional/social justification for the making of expertise through experiment. This volume focuses on curiosity, given as the scientist’s chief motivating factor for the finding of new facts, and as an essential character trait for anyone entering the scientific life. It is also the source of controversy and criticism, since curiosity alone increasingly looked amoral at best and immoral at worst, as the nineteenth century wore on.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|19 pages
General
part 2|20 pages
Medicine
chapter 4|11 pages
An Inquiry into the Causes and Effects of the Variolae Vaccinae
part 3|17 pages
Galvanism
part 4|116 pages
Chemistry/Physics
chapter 20|9 pages
Theories of Chemistry
part 5|40 pages
Astronomy
part 6|17 pages
Anthropometry/Eugenics
part 7|30 pages
Physiology
part 8|4 pages
Biology/Botany
part 9|4 pages
Psychology