Contagionism And Contagious Diseases
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Contagionism And Contagious Diseases
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Author : Thomas Rütten
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 2013-11-27
Contagionism And Contagious Diseases written by Thomas Rütten and has been published by Walter de Gruyter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-27 with Medical categories.
The idea of contagious transmission, either by material particles or by infectious ideas, has played a powerful role in the development of the Western World since antiquity. Yet it acquired quite a precise signature during the process of scientific and cultural differentiation in the 19th and early 20th centuries. This volume explores the significance and cultural functions of contagionism in this period, from notions of infectious homosexuality and the concept of social contagion to the political implications of bacteriological fieldwork. The history of the concept ‘microbe’ in aesthetic modernism is adressed as well as bacteriological metaphors in American literary historiography. Within this broad framework, contagionism as a literary narrative is approached in more focussed contributions: from its emotional impact in literary modernism to the idea of physical or psychic contagion in authors such as H.G. Wells, Kurt Lasswitz, Gustav Meyrinck, Ernst Weiss, Thomas Mann and Max Frisch. This twofold approach of general topics and individual literary case studies produces a deeper understanding of the symbolic implications of contagionism marking the boundaries between sick and healthy, familiar and alien, morally pure and impure.
Contagionism Catches On
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Author : Margaret DeLacy
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2017-07-25
Contagionism Catches On written by Margaret DeLacy and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-25 with History categories.
This book shows how contagionism evolved in eighteenth century Britain and describes the consequences of this evolution. By the late eighteenth century, the British medical profession was divided between traditionalists, who attributed acute diseases to the interaction of internal imbalances with external factors such as weather, and reformers, who blamed contagious pathogens. The reformers, who were often “outsiders,” English Nonconformists or men born outside England, emerged from three coincidental transformations: transformation in medical ideas, in the nature and content of medical education, and in the sort of men who became physicians. Adopting contagionism led them to see acute diseases as separate entities, spurring a process that reoriented medical research, changed communities, established new medical institutions, and continues to the present day.
The Germ Of An Idea
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Author : Margaret DeLacy
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-03-05
The Germ Of An Idea written by Margaret DeLacy and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-05 with History categories.
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.
Contagion And The State In Europe 1830 1930
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Author : Peter Baldwin
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1999-08-19
Contagion And The State In Europe 1830 1930 written by Peter Baldwin and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-08-19 with History categories.
This book is a groundbreaking study of the historical reasons for the divergence in public health policies adopted in Britain, France, Germany and Sweden, and the spectrum of responses to the threat of contagious diseases such as cholera, smallpox and syphilis. In particular the book examines the link between politics and prevention. Did the varying political regimes influence the styles of precaution adopted? Or was it, as Peter Baldwin argues, a matter of more basic differences between nations, above all their geographic placement in the epidemiological trajectory of contagion, that helped shape their responses and their basic assumptions about the respective claims of the sick and of society, and fundamental political decisions for and against different styles of statutory intervention? Thus the book seeks to use medical history to illuminate broader questions of the development of statutory intervention and the comparative and divergent evolution of the modern state in Europe.
Confronting Contagion
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Author : Melvin Santer
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2015
Confronting Contagion written by Melvin Santer and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Medical categories.
Traces a history of disease theory all the way from Classical antiquity to our modern understanding of viruses.
Contagion In Prussia 1831
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Author : Richard S. Ross III
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2015-09-22
Contagion In Prussia 1831 written by Richard S. Ross III and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-22 with History categories.
In 1831, Prussia was consumed by two fears: the possibility of revolution resulting from the 1830 November Uprising of Poland against Russia, and a looming cholera epidemic. As the contagion made its way across Russia, Prussian medical officials took note and prepared to respond to what they thought was a highly contagious disease. When it spread to Poland, Prussia instituted a strict quarantine policy on its border, inhibiting Prussian support of the Russian war effort in Poland. From the Polish perspective the quarantine was seen as a deliberate act of sabotage against the revolution, an attempt to cut off trade with the West. This book examines the Prussian government's strict health policy and its consequences, including social unrest and resulting public health reforms. Polish public health policy is investigated in light of the revolutionary government's needs. Information is provided on the cholera camps established by Prussia to quarantine Polish soldiers who crossed the border as refugees in July 1831, the height of the cholera fear in Prussia.
Acute Contagious Diseases
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Author : WILLIAM MILLER. WELCH
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019
Acute Contagious Diseases written by WILLIAM MILLER. WELCH and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with categories.
Epidemics And Quarantine A Lecture Introductory To The Winter Course At The New York Medical College
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Author : Horace Green
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1855
Epidemics And Quarantine A Lecture Introductory To The Winter Course At The New York Medical College written by Horace Green and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1855 with categories.
An Essay On Contagious Diseases
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Author : Clifton Wintringham
language : en
Publisher: Good Press
Release Date : 2023-10-19
An Essay On Contagious Diseases written by Clifton Wintringham and has been published by Good Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-10-19 with Fiction categories.
"An Essay on Contagious Diseases, More Particularly on the Small-pox, Measles, Putrid, Malignant, and Pestilential Fevers" by Clifton Wintringham delves into the critical topic of contagious diseases, focusing on various fevers and their impact. Wintringham's work contributes to the understanding of these diseases, their transmission, and management. This book serves as an informative resource for those interested in the history and medical aspects of contagious diseases, shedding light on the efforts to combat them.
Acute Contagious Diseases
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Author : William Miller Welch
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1905
Acute Contagious Diseases written by William Miller Welch and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1905 with Communicable diseases categories.