From Medical Chemistry to Biochemistry: The Making of a Biomedical Discipline

by Robert E. Kohler

Book Overview

This penetrating case study of institution building and entrepreneurship in science shows how a minor medical speciality evolved into a large and powerful academic discipline. Drawing extensively on little-used archival sources, the author analyses in detail how biomedical science became a central part of medical training and practice. The book shows how biochemistry was defined as a distinct discipline by the programmatic vision of individual biochemists...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521090474
• ISBN13: 9780521090476
• Release Date: November 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 412 Pages
• Weight: 1.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"