Margaret DeLacy
Palgrave Macmillan US
e druk, 2016
9781349575589
The Germ of an Idea
Contagionism, Religion, and Society in Britain, 1660-1730
Specificaties
Paperback, blz.
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Engels
Palgrave Macmillan US |
2016
ISBN13: 9781349575589
Rubricering
Levertijd ongeveer 9 werkdagen
Gratis verzonden
Samenvatting
Contagionism is an old idea, but gained new life in Restoration Britain. The Germ of an Idea considers British contagionism in its religious, social, political and professional context from the Great Plague of London to the adoption of smallpox inoculation. It shows how ideas about contagion changed medicine and the understanding of acute diseases.
Specificaties
ISBN13:9781349575589
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:paperback
Uitgever:Palgrave Macmillan US
Inhoudsopgave
Preface <br>1. Introduction: Medical Theory In Early Modern Europe <br>2. Restoration Medicine And The Dissenters <br>3. Populist Writing On Diseases In The Late Seventeenth Century <br>4. The Search For Middle Ground: Disease Theory As Natural History <br>5. Animalcules And Animals <br>6. English Contagionism And Hans Sloane's Circle <br>7. An English Treatise On Living Contagion: Benjamin Marten's New Theory Of Consumptions, 1720 <br>8. Smallpox Inoculation And The Royal Society, 1700-1723 <br>9. Contagion And Plague In The Eighteenth Century <br>Conclusion <br>