ABSTRACT
This volume foregrounds humanity (in the sense of compassion or sympathy), which often supplied the motivation for medical experiment and scientific innovation. Though the results of experiments could not be known in advance, often the stated goal was the reduction of suffering, the cure of disease, or the easement of life. Increasingly, critics accused practitioners of hiding hubris behind their purported humanity and questioned whether an increasingly professional scientific community could retain its grip on the meaning of compassion.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|3 pages
Macrobiotics
part 2|5 pages
Phrenology
part 3|4 pages
Galvanism
part 4|14 pages
Mesmerism
part 5|7 pages
Surgery
part 6|129 pages
Physiology and Medicine
chapter 8|9 pages
A Memoir on Some Recent Discoveries Relative to the Functions of the Nervous System
chapter 13|16 pages
The Torture of Animals and Its Effect Upon the Death Rate
chapter 18|30 pages
Life: Its Nature, Origin and Maintenance
part 7|35 pages
Eugenics/Statistics/Anthropometry
part 8|9 pages
Bacteriology
part 9|4 pages
Astronomy
part 10|4 pages
Chemistry