This volume is divided according to moral themes within medicine and science. The sources represent dominant notes within the culture of knowledge production th

This volume showcases doubt from within the scientific community itself. These sources dwell upon the moments at which ideas became challenged, when facts were

Increasingly, critics accused practitioners of hiding hubris behind their purported humanity and questioned whether an increasingly professional scientific comm

This volume foregrounds humanity (in the sense of compassion or sympathy), which often supplied the motivation for medical experiment and scientific innovation.

This collection pieces together a wealth of material in order to get inside the experience of scientific practice in the long nineteenth century. It aims to rea