A study of physiology in America, this places the development of American physiology in the cultural context of the period. Divided into three parts, the book covers social and institutional history; physiology in relation to other fields; and instruments, materials and techniques

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Toward a History of American Physiology.- American Physiologists in German Laboratories, 1865-1914.- Growth of American Physiology, 1850-1900.- Physiology of the Future: Institutional Styles at Columbia and Harvard.- A. B. Macallum and Physiology at the University of Toronto.- International Relations and Domestic Elites in American Physiology, 1900-1940.- Biological and Medical Societies and the Founding of the American Physiological Society.- Physiology, Biology, and the Advent of Physiological Morphology.- General Physiology and the Discipline of Physiology, 1890-1935.- Pathologists, Clinicians, and the Role of Pathophysiology.- Industrial Fatigue and the Discipline of Physiology.- Physiological Identity of American Sex Researchers Between the Two World Wars.- Cardiac Physiology and Clinical Medicine? Two Case Studies.- Instruments and an Independent Physiology: The Harvard Physiological Laboratory, 1871-1906.- Research Materials and Reproductive Science in the United States, 1910-1940.- Instruments, Techniques, and Social Units in American Neurophysiology, 1870-1950.