Knowledge in the time of cholera : the struggle over American medicine in the nineteenth century / Owen Whooley.
2013
RC131.A2 W46 2013
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Title
Knowledge in the time of cholera : the struggle over American medicine in the nineteenth century / Owen Whooley.
Author
Whooley, Owen.
ISBN
9780226017464 (cloth : alkaline paper)
9780226017631 (paperback : alkaline paper)
9780226017778 (e-book)
9780226017631 (paperback : alkaline paper)
9780226017778 (e-book)
Imprint
Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2013.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xiii, 307 pages ) : illustrations
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RC131.A2 W46 2013
Dewey Decimal Classification
614.5/14097309034
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
Introduction : of cholera, quacks, and competing medical visions
Choleric confusion
The formation of the AMA, the creation of quacks
The intellectual politics of filth
Cholera becomes a microbe
Capturing cholera, and epistemic authority, in the laboratory
Conclusion : medicine after the time of cholera.
Choleric confusion
The formation of the AMA, the creation of quacks
The intellectual politics of filth
Cholera becomes a microbe
Capturing cholera, and epistemic authority, in the laboratory
Conclusion : medicine after the time of cholera.