Defining a discovery
Priority and methodological controversy in early nineteenth-century anatomy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20315699 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Carin Berkowitz (Chemical Heritage Foundation, Beckman Center for the History of Chemistry, 315 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 68 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 357-372 |
| Publication date | 2014-12-20 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Notes and Records the Royal Society Journal of the History of Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0035-9149 • E-ISSN: 1743-0178 |
| Publisher | The Royal Society (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1098/rsnr.2014.0028 |
| PMID | 27494015 |
| OpenAlex | W2126601644 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 5 |
In the early nineteenth century, Charles Bell and François Magendie engaged in a decades-long priority dispute over the discovery of the roots of motor and sensory nerves. The constantly recalibrated arguments of its participants illuminate changes in the life sciences during that period. When Bell first wrote about the nerves in 1811, surgeon-anatomists ran small schools out of their homes, natural theology was in vogue, exchanges between British and French medical practitioners were limited by the Napoleonic Wars, and British practitioners typically rejected experimental physiology and vivisection. By the end of Magendie's career, medical science was produced in the laboratory, taught through artfully produced performances of the sort at which Magendie excelled, and disseminated through journals. It is not entirely clear which historical character, Bell or Magendie, ‘won’ the dispute, nor that they even had clear and consistent positions in it, but what is clear is that one style of science had won out over the other, and over the course of the dispute, pedagogy lost pride of place in medical science
Aesthetics · Alma mater · Medical education · Medical science · Period (music) · Political science · Pride · Style (visual arts) · Anatomy · Classics · History · History of Medicine Studies · Law · Medical History and Innovations · Medicine · Neurology and Historical Studies · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,17 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2020 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |