List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction Andrew Cunningham and
Perry Williams; 1. Laboratories, medicine and public life in Germany,
1830-1849: ideological roots of the institutional revolution Timothy
Lenoir; 2. Building institutes for physiology in Prussia, 1836-1846:
contexts, interests and rhetoric Richard L. Kremer; 3. The fall and rise of
professional mystery: epistemology, authority and the emergence of
laboratory medicine in nineteenth-century America John Harley Warner; 4.
Anaesthetics, ethics and aesthetics; vivisection in the late
nineteenth-century British laboratory Stewart Richards; 5. Scientific
elites and laboratory organisation in fin de siècle Paris and Berlin: the
Pasteur Institute and Robert Koch's Institute for Infectious Diseases
compared Paul Weindling; 6. French military epidemiology and the limits of
the laboratory: the case of Louis-Félix-Achille Kelsch Michael A. Osborne;
7. Transforming plague: the laboratory and the identity of infectious
disease Andrew Cunningham; 8. The laboratory as business: Sir Almroth
Wright's vaccine programme and the construction of penicillin Wai Chen; 9.
The costly ghastly kitchen Bruno Latour; 10. The laboratory revolution in
medicine as rhetorical and aesthetic accomplishment Nicholas Jardine; 11.
Gendered reflexions on the laboratory in medicine Hilary Rose; Index.
