Do-It-Yourself Biology And The History Of Risk In Science
Monday, May 2, 2011 - 01:50
in Psychology & Sociology
John Hunter had a gift for dissection. As a child, he was an unexceptional student. At age 20, he journeyed to London in the midst of Britain's rise as a scientific power to assist at his brother's anatomy school. There he displayed a gift for finely dismantling the human body into its discrete parts. Hunter went on to become a surgeon, at the time a vocation that put him on the same social footing as shoemakers or metal smiths. With little modern medical knowledge to guide them through the inner workings of their patients, surgeons were tradesmen. Hunter changed that. read more