Contagionism Catches On Medical Ideology in Britain, 1730-1800 /
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| Sumario: | IX, 347 p. text |
| Lenguaje: | inglés |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
2017.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. 2017. |
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| Acceso en línea: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50959-4 |
| Formato: | Electrónico Libro |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Fever Theory and British Contagionism in the Mid-Eighteenth Century
- 3. Contagionism after 1750: John Pringle and James Lind
- 4. Animate Disease after 1750: The “Exanthemata Viva”
- 5. Counting and Classifying Disease: Contagion, Enumeration and Cullen’s Nosology
- 6. John Haygarth and the Campaign for Contagion
- 7. Contagionism, Politics and the Public in Manchester
- 8. Institutionalizing Contagionism: The Manchester House of Recovery.