Book contents
- Humane Professions
- Humane Professions
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Experior
- 1 Darwin’s Compromise
- 2 Medical Monsters?
- 3 Of Laboratories and Legislatures
- 4 Paget’s Public
- 5 Cannon Fire
- Epilogue: Humanity and Human Experimentation
- Select Bibliography
- Index
5 - Cannon Fire
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 January 2021
- Humane Professions
- Humane Professions
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Experior
- 1 Darwin’s Compromise
- 2 Medical Monsters?
- 3 Of Laboratories and Legislatures
- 4 Paget’s Public
- 5 Cannon Fire
- Epilogue: Humanity and Human Experimentation
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This chapter details the formation of a formal strategic defence of medical research in the United States, making good on the ad hoc, reactionary work and individualized preparation carried out by men like Bowditch and Ernst. It incorporates the opening of the Rockefeller Institute, the establishment of the Council for the Defense of Medical Research of the American Medical Association and the development of an art – sometimes literally – of public relations by the medical establishment to protect its scientific methods.
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- Humane ProfessionsThe Defence of Experimental Medicine, 1876–1914, pp. 138 - 174Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021