Contributions

  • Stewart Wolf (Introduction) - Contributor

Publication

1999-12-01 - Transaction Publishers

Language

English

Word Count

56,500 words, Guess

Page Count

226 pages

Physical Format

Paperback

Identifiers

  • ISBN-100765806150
  • ISBN-139780765806154
  • Library of Congress Control Number99025208
  • OCLC Control Number40979976
  • Better World Books9780765806154
and 1 more

Classifications

  • LCCR850 .B413 1999
  • LCCR850.B413 1999

Description

"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 for a quantitative result that might serve as a basis of a theory, he had little confidence in statistics as a guide to certainty. Bernard's opposition to scientists' prevailing habit of segregating their inquiries into systems rather than studying the unified organism is particularly striking. This volume will be important for those in the medical field as well as those interested in the history of science."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Experimental MedicinePaperbackTransaction Publishers1999-12-01

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