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Knowledge in the time of cholera : the struggle over American medicine in the nineteenth century
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Knowledge in the time of cholera : the struggle over American medicine in the nineteenth century / Owen Whooley.
ISBN
9780226017464 (cloth : alkaline paper)
022601746X (cloth : alkaline paper)
9780226017631 (paperback : alkaline paper)
022601763X (paperback : alkaline paper)
9780226017778 (e-book)
Publication
Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2013.
Copyright Notice Date
©2013
Physical Description
xiii,307 pages: illustrations ; 24 cm
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 06, 2013
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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