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The term ‘physiology’ means little to the public. In contrast, ‘chemist’ or ‘surgeon’ or ‘psychiatrist’ immediately conjure up readily recognizable figures—scientists with test tubes, men in white with scalpels, or graybeards with couches. But physiology and physiologists are indistinct: in definition and in function they merely ‘have something to do with the body,’ meaning—almost without exception—the human body. Public recognition of physiology in terms resembling Claude Barnard’s classic view, as the study of the physical and chemical processes of all living organisms, is practically non-existent.
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Gerard, R.W. (1958). The Public and Physiology: Communication and Education. In: Mirror to Physiology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7538-5_11
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