The Germ of an Idea
Contagionism, Religion, and Society in Britain, 1660-1730
(Sprache: Englisch)
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....
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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.
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1. Introduction: Medical Theory in Early Modern Europe 2. Restoration Medicine and the Dissenters 3. Populist Writing on Diseases in the Late Seventeenth Century 4. The Search for Middle Ground: Disease Theory as Natural History 5. Animalcules and Animals 6. English Contagionism and Hans Sloane's Circle 7. An English Treatise on Living Contagion: Benjamin Marten's New Theory of Consumptions, 1720 8: Smallpox Inoculation and the Royal Society, 1700-1723 9: Contagion and Plague in the Eighteenth Century
Autoren-Porträt von Margaret DeLacy
Margaret DeLacy is an independent scholar. She received her Ph.D. in British history from Princeton University, USA. She is the author of Prison Reform in Lancashire, 1700-1850: A Study in County Administration and several articles on British medical history.
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- Autor: Margaret DeLacy
- 2020, 305 Seiten, Masse: 15,4 x 23,3 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
- ISBN-10: 1349575585
- ISBN-13: 9781349575589
- Erscheinungsdatum: 14.07.2020
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Englisch
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