Index

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction: Constructing Scientific Communities 1
4. 1. New Formats for New Readers
5. Chapter 1. Scientific, Medical, and Technical Periodicals in Nineteenth- Century Britain: New Formats for New Readers 35
6. Chapter 2. Redrawing the Image of Science: Technologies of Illustration and the Audiences for Scientific Periodicals in Britain, 1790– 1840 65
7. Chapter 3. Proceedings and the Public: How a Commercial Genre Transformed Science 103
8. 2. Defining the Communities of Science
9. Chapter 4. “An Independent Publication for Geologists”: The Geological Society, Commercial Journals, and the Remaking of Nineteenth- Century Geology 137
10. Chapter 5. Natural History Periodicals and Changing Conceptions of the Naturalist Community, 1828– 65 172
11. Chapter 6. “The Sympathy of a Crowd”: Imagining Scientific Communities in Mid- Nineteenth- Century Entomology Periodicals 205
12. Chapter 7. Periodical Physics in Britain: Institutional and Industrial Contexts, 1870– 1900 238
13. Chapter 8. Late Victorian Astronomical Society Journals: Creating Scientific Communities on Paper 274
14. 3. Managing the Boundaries of Medicine
15. Chapter 9. “A Borderland in Ethics”: Medical Journals, the Public, and the Medical Profession in Nineteenth- Century Britain 311
16. Chapter 10. “National Health Is National Wealth”: Publics, Professions, and the Rise of the Public Health Journal 337
17. Acknowledgments 371
18. Select Bibliography 373
19. List of Contributors 387
20. Index 389