The gospel of germs : men, women, and the microbe in American life /
Little more than a hundred years ago, ordinary Americans had no idea that many deadly ailments were the work of microorganisms, let alone that their own behavior spread such diseases. The Gospel of Germs shows how the revolutionary findings of late-nineteenth-century bacteriology made their way from...
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| Ngôn ngữ: | English |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Press,
1998.
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Mục lục:
- Preface: Memories of Disease Past
- Introduction: The Gospel of Germs
- I. The Gospel Emergent, 1870-1890. 1. Apostles of the Germ. 2. Whited Sepulchers. 3. Entrepreneurs of the Germ
- II. The Gospel Triumphant, 1890-1920. 4. Disciples of the Laboratory. 5. Tuberculosis Religion. 6. The Domestication of the Germ
- III. The Gospel in Practice, 1900-1930. 7. Antisepticonscious America. 8. The Wages of Dirt Were Death. 9. The Two-Edged Sword
- IV. The Gospel in Retreat. 10. The Waning of Enthusiasm.