Essay Review ID: CBB000340816

The Idea of a Germ (2003)

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Description Essay review of Michael Worboys, Spreading Germs: Disease Theories and Medical Practice in Britain, 1865--1900 (2000).


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Authors & Contributors
Worboys, Michael
Adria L. Imada
Martín Espinosa, Noelia María
Ayarzagüena Sanz, Mariano
Bonea, Amelia
Mason, Katherine
Journals
Social History of Medicine
Technology and Culture
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Revue d'Histoire de la Pharmacie
Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science
Llull: Revista de la Sociedad Española de Historia de las Ciencias y de las Técnicas
Publishers
Boydell Press
University of Chicago Press
University of California Press
Stanford University Press
Septentrion
Routledge
Concepts
Infectious diseases
Medicine
Prevention and control of disease
Public health
Epidemics
Disease and diseases
People
Trotter, Thomas
Lister, Joseph, Baron
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
20th century, early
21st century
20th century, late
18th century
Places
Great Britain
United States
Spain
Hawaii (U.S.)
Valencia (Spain)
Québec (Canada)
Institutions
Great Britain. Royal Navy
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