Book ID: CBB000101679

Heredity and Infection: The History of Disease Transmission (2001)

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Gaudillière, Jean-Paul (Editor)
Löwy, Illana (Editor)


Routledge


Publication Date: 2001
Physical Details: ix + 383 pp., illus., ports., bibl., index
Language: English

Description Contents: Jean-Paul Gaudillière; Ilana Löwy: Introduction: Horizontal and Vertical Transmission of Diseases: The Impossible Separation. Part 1: Tuberculosis. J. Andrew Mendelsohn: Medicine and the Making of Bodily Inequality in Twentieth-Century Europe. Michael Worboys: From Heredity to Infection? Tuberculosis, 1870-1890. Joanne Brown: Purity and Danger in Colour: Notes on Germ Theory and the Semantics of Segregation, 1895-1915. Part 2: Etiology and Experimental Practices. Olga Amsterdamska: Standardizing Epidemics: Infection, Inheritance and Environment in Prewar Experimental Epidemiology. Jean-Paul Gaudillière: Making Heredity in Mice and Men: The Production and Uses of Animal Models in Postwar Human Genetics. Angela N. H. Creager; Jean-Paul Gaudillière: Experimental Platforms and Technologies of Visualization: Cancer as Viral Epidemic, 1930-1960. Part 3: Heredity, Medicine and Health Policies. Patrice Pinell: Degeneration Theory and Heredity Patterns between 1850 and 1900. Patrick Zylberman: Hereditary Diseases and Environmental Factors in the “Mixed Economy” of Public Health: René Sand and the French Social Medicine, 1920-1934. Part 4: Transmission and Medical Practices. Paolo Palladino: From Family Pedigrees to Molecular Markers: On Cancer and Heredity at St. Mark's Hospital, 1924-1995. Jennifer Stanton; Virginia Berridge: Vertical Ancestries and Horizontal Risks: Hepatitis B and AIDS. Ilana Löwy: Predispositions, Cofactors and Images of AIDS. Jean-Pierre Revillard: Conclusion.


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Authors & Contributors
Charles Kenny
Laurie Garrett
Pépin, Jacques
Gosselin, Etienne
Webb, James L. A., Jr.
Sironi, Vittorio Alessandro
Concepts
Epidemics
Public health
Epidemiology
Medicine
Medicine and society
Infectious diseases
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
21st century
20th century, late
20th century, early
Meiji period (Japan, 1868-1910)
Places
United States
Spain
Canada
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Republic of Liberia
Toronto (Ontario)
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