Clerks, bedels and chemical operators of the Society of Apothecaries
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the role of institutions in science and society. On a practical level, she seems unaware of such interesting historical issues as the difficult birth of Kew Gardens and its struggle for pre-eminence with the Botany Department of the British Museum. Kew prospered because of its decision to concentrate on economic botany, an area in which the British Museum was unable to operate. The question of the autonomy of government science as reflected in the Ayrton affair gets scant treatment, as does the whole topic of professionalization: it is surely wrong to assert that Joseph Hooker inherited an established professional domain (p. 92), when in fact he spent nearly ten years searching for employment and did much to create that domain when, at last, he found it. At a deeper level, Brockway fails to make use of the rich and varied literature on the sociology and history of science, literature which would have transformed and illuminated her thesis. To analyse the political effects of scientific research, and to describe the metamorphosis of botanical knowledge into profit and power, it is not sufficient to skim over the "general intellectual background" and the "personal connexions of the Kew circle". Scientific knowledge may indeed be the ultimate economic resource, but one has to do more than simply admire the Palm House. Brockway should throw a few stones. Janet Browne Unit for the History of Medicine, University College London
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Medical History
دوره 25 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1981