An edition of The conquest of epidemic disease
(1944)
The conquest of epidemic disease
a chapter in the history of ideas
by Charles-Edward Amory Winslow
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This book details the history of epidemic disease and the causation theories associated with epidemics.
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The conquest of epidemic disease: a chapter in the history of ideas
1944, Princeton University Press
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Table of Contents
World of demons
The wrath of god
Metaphysical medicine
The universe of natural law
Primitive concepts of contagion
The great teacher
Fracastorius
The conception of a contagium animatum
The English Hippocrates
The last of the plague tractates
The enigma of yellow fever
The great sanitary awakening
Three pioneer epidemiologists
Pasteur
Pettenkofer: the last stand
The concept of the carrier
The insect host
The modes of infection.
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references (pages 384-397) and index.
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