Essay Review: The Historiography of the Claude Bernard Industry: Claude Bernard and Animal Chemistry,Durkheim,Bernard and Epistemology,Claude Bernard's Revised Edition of His Introduction à l'étude de la médecine experimentale

Cohen I. Bernard , “Foreword” in Bernard Claude , An introduction to the study of experimental medicine, trans. Green H. C. (New York, 1957), n. p.

Little has been written of scientific mythologies; but see Jordanova L. J. , “The natural philosophy of Lamarck in its historical context” (Cambridge University Ph.D. dissertation, 1976), ii-x, 1–10.

Bibliographies are to be found in Whitrow M. (ed.), Isis cumulative bibliography, i (London, 1971), 135–37; Grmek M. D. , “Claude Bernard”, in Gillispie C. C. , (ed.), Dictionary of scientific biography, ii (New York, 1970), 24–34; Holmes F. L. , Claude Bernard and animal chemistry (Cambridge, Mass., 1974), 467–82; Olmsted J. M. D. , Claude Bernard: Physiologist (New York, 1938); Riese W. , “Claude Bernard in the light of modern science”, Bulletin of medical history, xiv (1943), 281–94.

Grmek , op. cit. (ref. 3).

Henderson L. J. in Bernard Claude , op. cit. (ref. 1), v-xii, p. xii.

Schiller J. , Claude Bernard et les problèmes scientifiques de son temps (Paris, 1967).

See the bibliographies cited in ref. 3. Additional works not mentioned there are Grmek M. D. , Raisonnement expérimental et recherches toxicologiques chez Claude Bernard (Geneva, 1973), and Di Giandomenico H. , Filosofia e mediana sperimentale in Claude Bernard (Bari, 1968). Two re-editions also not cited are Bernard Claude , Introduction a l'étude de la médecine expérimentale, ed. Dagognet F. (Paris, 1966), and Bernard Claude , Phenomena of life common to animals and vegetables, trans R. P. and Cook M. A. (Dundee, 1974).

Cranefield P. (ed.), The way in and the way out (New York, 1974).

The same point has been made by Evans R. J. in an untitled book review in Journal of European Studies, vii (1977), 224–6.

The British Society for the History of Science has announced its intention to produce such a series, while Steneck N. Professor , Department of History, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, has already produced the first volume of a projected series.

Peel J. D. Y. , Herbert Spencer, the evolution of a sociologist (London, 1971); Baker K. , Condorcet: From natural philosophy to social mathematics (Chicago, 1975).

Holmes , op. cit. (ref. 3), 15.

French R. D. , Antivivisection and medical science in Victorian society (Princeton, 1975).

Hirst P. Q. , Durkheim, Bernard and epistemology (London, 1975), 25.

Ibid., 24.

Ibid., 12.