Publisher's Synopsis
It is now commonly argued by historians of science that the change in attitudes towards nature that characterizes the scientific revolution owed as much to the new styles of thinking required by the printed scientific paper as to experimental work in the laboratory. Yet, considering their vast importance, past and present, it is remarkable that the history of medical journals has been so infrequently studied. Little is known about the roots of medical journalism, about editorial practices, about the finances of the medical press and, perhaps most importantly, about the ways in which medical journalism altered the world of medicine itself. With particular reference to the "British Medical Journal", "Medical Journals and Medical Knowledge" addresses these questions and examines the impact of regular news on the making of the medical community.;This book should be of interest to undergraduates, postgraduates, academics and researchers in the fields of history of medicine and social history.
