Contagionism catches on : medical ideology in Britain, 1730-1800 /: medical ideology in Britain, 1730-1800. ([2017])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Margaret DeLacy.
• Authors: DeLacy, Margaret
• Contents: 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.
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2017
• Copyright Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (325 pages)
• Subjects: 940.2; Communicable diseases -- History -- 18th century; Physicians -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century; HISTORY / Europe / Western; Communicable diseases; Physicians; Germ Theory of Disease -- history; History, 18th Century; Communicable Diseases -- etiology; Great Britain; United Kingdom; Electronic books; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319509594; 3319509594
• Related ISBNs: 9783319509587; 3319509586
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.