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