Scientific and Medical Knowledge Production, 1796-1918

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Scientific and Medical Knowledge Production, 1796-1918 is written by Rob Boddice and published by Taylor & Francis. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1000860108 (ISBN 10) and 9781000860108 (ISBN 13).

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. This volume presents a set of responses to this criticism and others, showing the extent to which the lived-experience of scientific practice became a justification in and of itself for the expression of social, political and cultural authority. Bare knowledge, as it was presented, came with an enormous social valuation. These sources show how that authority changed and grew over time.