Frederick Novy and the Development of Bacteriology in Medicine by Powel H. Kazanjian (review)

Over a career that spanned all the way into the 1930s, Novy worked on a bewildering number of microbes, including bacteria, protozoa, and viruses, focusing on fundamental biological questions but keeping his distance from therapeutic experiments, not to speak of clinical medicine. Of the six chapter...

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Published in:Bulletin of the history of medicine 2018-12, Vol.92 (4), p.707-709
Main Author: Gradmann, Christoph
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
20th century
Antibiotics
Bacteriology
Biographies
Careers
History of medicine
Laboratories
Lewis, Harry Sinclair (1885-1951)
Medical research
Medicine
Novy, Frederick (1864-1957)
Public health
Researchers
Salmonella
Science
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Summary:Over a career that spanned all the way into the 1930s, Novy worked on a bewildering number of microbes, including bacteria, protozoa, and viruses, focusing on fundamental biological questions but keeping his distance from therapeutic experiments, not to speak of clinical medicine. Of the six chapters, the first and the last are more biographical, telling the story of Novy’s early career and of his later importance as role model for a career path that became common only from the mid-twentieth century onward, that of a scientist-researcher in a medical school. [...]to the image of American bacteriology as a science of public health, he successfully developed a basic science version of the discipline and gave it firm footing in the teaching of medicine.
ISSN:0007-5140
1086-3176
1086-3176
1896-3176
DOI:10.1353/bhm.2018.0083