The Laboratory and the Clinic Revisited: The Introduction of Laboratory Medicine into the Bergen General Hospital, Norway

Hammerborg, Morten

doi:10.1093/shm/hkq113

Social History of Medicine

2011

DOI: 10.1093/shm/hkq113

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The Laboratory and the Clinic Revisited: The Introduction of Laboratory Medicine into the Bergen General Hospital, Norway

Morten Hammerborg¹

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“…Hammerborg's study of Bergen General Hospital, Norway, has suggested that sites away from embedded university tradition counteract the deep academic divisions wrought by scientific institutionalization, implicit in Lawrence's Edinburgh-based history. 12 Jacyna's earlier conclusion from Glasgow Western Infirmarythat laboratory science did not overcome clinical scepticism in hospitalsis supported by Davis's study of four diverse Scottish asylums. 13 Nevertheless, her findings suggest that pioneer hubs pushed science out into the surrounding asylums.…”

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Ambition, ‘failure’ and the laboratory: Birmingham as a centre of twentieth-century British scientific psychiatry

Wynter¹

2021

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This article will reveal how local scientific determination and ambition, in the face of rejection by funders, navigated a path to success and to influence in national policy and international medicine. It will demonstrate that Birmingham, England's ‘second city’, was the key centre for cutting-edge biological psychiatry in Britain in the 1920s and 1930s. The ambitions of Frederick Mott – doyen of biochemistry, neuropathology and neuropsychiatry, until now celebrated as a London figure – to revolutionize psychiatric treatment through science, chimed with those of the City and University of Birmingham's Joint Board of Research for Mental Diseases. Under Mott's direction, shaped by place and inter-professional working, the board's collaborators included psychiatrist Thomas Chivers Graves and world-renowned physiologist J.S. Haldane. However, starved of external money and therefore fresh ideas, as well as oversight, the ‘groupthink’ that emerged created the classic UK focal sepsis theory which, it was widely believed, would yield a cure for mental illness – a cure that never materialized. By tracing the venture's growth, accomplishments and contemporary potential for biochemical, bacterial and therapeutic discoveries – as well as its links with scientist and key government adviser Solly Zuckerman – this article illustrates how ‘failure’ and its ahistorical assessment fundamentally obscure past importance, neglect the early promise offered by later unsuccessful science, and can even hide questionable research.

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Ambition, ‘failure’ and the laboratory: Birmingham as a centre of twentieth-century British scientific psychiatry

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“…Sex physiology, as a marginal and weakly institutionalised field, is also notable for its many instances of interdisciplinary collaborations and material exchanges: Oudshoorn (1994) and Clarke (1998) . Revisionist historians are generally beginning to challenge the conflict-oriented narrative of the lab-clinic relationship: Hull (2007), Hammerborg (2011), Sturdy (2011) and Wall (2011) .…”

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The demand for pregnancy testing: The Aschheim–Zondek reaction, diagnostic versatility, and laboratory services in 1930s Britain

Olszynko-Gryn

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The Ryti Case: language, gender and the rules of the game in Finnish academic medicine in the 1920s

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2012

Scandinavian Journal of History

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THE RYTI CASELanguage, gender and the rules of the game in Finnish academic medicine in the 1920sThis article focuses on a controversy that took place in the academic medical circles of Helsinki in c. 1925Helsinki in c. -1927. Among the main actors in this controversy was Elsa Ryti, MD, one of the first women to make herself a name in medical science in Finland. The controversy became public in early 1926 and was then discussed by the Board and the Council of the Finnish Medical Association. The dispute is historically interesting because of its capacity to disclose tensions, power structures and lines of power within the field of academic medicine. In order to understand the course and outcome of the controversy, it is necessary to take into account several intersecting lines of power: the asymmetrical distribution of power and knowledge at the university clinics, the acute language strife at the time between speakers of Finnish and Swedish, the tension between the clinic and the laboratory and, last but not least, the matter of gender.

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The Laboratory and the Clinic Revisited: The Introduction of Laboratory Medicine into the Bergen General Hospital, Norway

Cited by 5 publications

References 10 publications

Ambition, ‘failure’ and the laboratory: Birmingham as a centre of twentieth-century British scientific psychiatry

Ambition, ‘failure’ and the laboratory: Birmingham as a centre of twentieth-century British scientific psychiatry

The demand for pregnancy testing: The Aschheim–Zondek reaction, diagnostic versatility, and laboratory services in 1930s Britain

The Ryti Case: language, gender and the rules of the game in Finnish academic medicine in the 1920s

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