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By John Parascandola. 212 pp., illustrated. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992. $32.50. ISBN 0-8018-4416-9.

Based on extensive archival research, this book provides valuable insight into the intellectual and institutional origins of pharmacology in America. Rather than reviewing theories, methods, or discoveries, Parascandola describes the professionalization of experimental pharmacology. Like experimental pathology and physiology, this field was patterned after programs established in European universities during the second half of the 19th century.

John Jacob Abel, an American medical graduate who spent several years working with leading European physiologists and pharmacologists, was primarily responsible for establishing the discipline of experimental pharmacology in America. Parascandola organizes his book around Abel's career. This is reasonable when one considers . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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