Chemistry, Medicine, and Crime: Mateu J.B. Orfila (1787–1853) and His Times Historical and technological historians

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Chemistry, Medicine, and Crime: Mateu J.B. Orfila (1787–1853) and His Times Historical and technological historiansBertomeu Snchez, Jos Ramn, and Agust Nieto Galan, eds., 2006, xxv + 306pp., illus., cloth bound and jacketed This collective volume attempts to analyze Orfilias life and works from a perspective that is more in tune with recent trends in the history of science. We have tried to show that chemistry, medicine, and toxicology cannot be historically understood as fixed and independent disciplines, and that Orfilas contributions had a profound impact on