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Knowledge in the Time of Cholera: The Struggle over American Medicine in the Nineteenth Century (2013)

Whooley, Owen (Author)

University of Chicago Press

ISBN: 9780226017464

Publication Date: 2013
Physical Details: xiii + 307 pp.; ill.; maps; bibl.; index
Language: English

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Cholera Disease and diseases Epidemics Public health Therapeutic practice; therapy; treatment Germ theory of disease Medicine and society 19th century United States

Vomiting. Diarrhea. Dehydration. Death. Confusion. In 1832, the arrival of cholera in the United States created widespread panic throughout the country. For the rest of the century, epidemics swept through American cities and towns like wildfire, killing thousands. Physicians of all stripes offered conflicting answers to the cholera puzzle, ineffectively responding with opiates, bleeding, quarantines, and all manner of remedies, before the identity of the dreaded infection was consolidated under the germ theory of disease some sixty years later.

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Review Gilbert, Pamela K. (2014) Review of "Knowledge in the Time of Cholera: The Struggle over American Medicine in the Nineteenth Century". Bulletin of the History of Medicine (pp. 204-205). unapi

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Review Imber, Jonathan B. (2015) Review of "Knowledge in the Time of Cholera: The Struggle over American Medicine in the Nineteenth Century". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 198-199). unapi

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