The first book-length study of the history of physiology in America, this text covers social and institutional history; physiology in relation to other fields; and instruments, materials, and techniques.

Toward a History of American Physiology, G. Geison PART I: Social and Institutional History 1. American Physiologists in German Laboratories, 1865-1914, R.G. Frank, Jr. 2. Growth of American Physiology, 1850-1900, W.B. Fye 3. Physiology of the Future: Institutional Styles at Columbia and Harvard, A.C. Laszlo 4. A.B. Macallum and Physiology at the University of Toronto, S.F. McRae 5. International Relations and Domestic Elites in American Physiology, 1900-1940, G.L. Geison PART II: Physiology in Relation to Other Fields 6. Biological and Medical Societies and the Founding of the American Physiological Society, T.A. Appel 7. Physiology, Biology, and the Advent of Physiological Morphology, J. Maienschein 8. General Physiology and the Discipline of Physiology, 1890-1935, P.J. Pauly 9. Pathologists, Clinicians, and the Role of Pathophysiology, R.C. Maulitz 10. Industrial Fatigue and the Discipline of Physiology, R. Gillespie 11. Physiological Identity of American Sex Researchers Between the Two World Wars, D.E. Long 12. Cardiac Physiology and Clinical Medicine? Two Case Studies, J.D. Howell PART III: Instruments, Materials, and Techniques 13. Instruments and an Independent Physiology: The Harvard Physiological Laboratory, 1871-1906, M. Borell 14. Research Materials and Reproductive Science in the United States, 1910-1940, A.E. Clarke 15. Instruments, Techniques, and Social Units in American Neurophysiology, 1870-1950, L.H. Marshall