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In Service to American Pharmacy

The Professional Life of William Procter Jr.

University of Alabama Press

Higby examines the professional life of William Procter, Jr., generally regarded as the “Father of American Pharmacy,” and follows the development of American pharmacy through four decades of Procter’s professional commitment to the field. 

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Henry Darwin Rogers, 1808–1866

American Geologist

University of Alabama Press

Henry Darwin Rogers was one of the first professional geologists in the United States.  He directed two of the earliest state geological surveys--New Jersey and Pennsylvania--in the mid-1830s.  His major interest was Pennsylvania, with its Appalachian Mountains, which Rogers saw as great folds of sedimentary rock.  He belived that an interpretation of these folds would lead to an understanding of the dynamic processes that had shaped the earth.  From Rogers' efforts to explain these Pennsylvania folds came the first uniquely American theory of mountain elevation, a theory that Rogers personally considered his most significant achievement.

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Simon Baruch

Rebel in the Ranks of Medicine, 1840-1921

University of Alabama Press

Recounts the remarkable life of a Prussian/Polish Jew who immigrated to the United States as a teenager in the 1850s and became one of the nation’s best-known physicians by the turn of the century

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Sloss Furnaces and the Rise of the Birmingham District

An Industrial Epic

University of Alabama Press

 Sloss Furnaces resonates with the class of competition and the frenetic energy with which southerners joined other Americans in a rush to transform a continent after a fratricidal drive for independence had failed. The sweeping narrative that Lewis has produced amply justifies its subtitle, An Industrial Epic.

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To Foster the Spirit of Professionalism

Southern Scientists and State Academies of Science

University of Alabama Press
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Henry William Ravenel, 1814-1887

South Carolina Scientist in the Civil War Era

University of Alabama Press

"A thoroughly enjoyable biography of one of the important American naturalists, botanists, and mycologists of the 1800s. . . . Truly an outstanding contribution to the history of American science."

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George William Featherstonhaugh

The First U.S. Government Geologist

University of Alabama Press

"U.S. historians can read this book with considerable profit for the details it offers; general readers can enjoy it as a straightforward and informative biography."
Choice

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Making Medical Doctors

Science and Medicine at Vanderbilt since Flexner

University of Alabama Press

A study of the union of science and medicine in a particularly illustrative institutional setting

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Granville Sharp Pattison

Anatomist and Antagonist, 1791-1851

University of Alabama Press
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An Agenda for Antiquity

Henry Fairfield Osborn and Vertebrate Paleontology at the American Museum of Natural History, 1890-1935

University of Alabama Press

How and why vertebrate paleontology flourished at New York’s American Museum of Natural History in the early 20th century

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The Eagle's Nest

Natural History and American Ideas, 1812-1842

University of Alabama Press

Contains a useful panoramic account of the fresh perspectives that early American practitioners brought to the natural sciences

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U.S. Coast Survey vs. Naval Hydrographic Office

A 19th-Century Rivalry in Science and Politics

University of Alabama Press

Examines a crucial phase of the relations of science and politics in the post-Civil War period
 

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Raphael Pumpelly

Gentleman Geologist of the Gilded Age

University of Alabama Press

The biography of Raphael Pumpelly, a transitional figure in a period of rapid change

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Brethren of the Net

American Entomology, 1840-1880

University of Alabama Press

Draws together information from diverse sources to illuminate an important chapter in the history of American science

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Curators and Culture

The Museum Movement in America, 1740-1870

University of Alabama Press

Curators and Culture argues that a small, loosely connected group of men constituted an informal museum movement in America from about 1740 to 1870.

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Homicidal Insanity, 1800-1985

University of Alabama Press

Homicidal insanity has remained a vexation to both the psychiatric and legal professions despite the panorama of scientific and social change during the past 200 years.  Still, to this day no rational method exists to discriminate the dangerous from the harmless in matters of involuntary commitment, nor insanity from crime in the courts.

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Technical Knowledge in American Culture

Science, Technology, and Medicine Since the Early 1800s

University of Alabama Press

Addresses the relationships between what modern-day experts say to each other and to their constituencies

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American Science in the Age of Jackson

University of Alabama Press

Shows how American scientists emerged from a disorganized group of amateurs into a professional body sharing a common orientation and common goals
 

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