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DeLacy, Margaret.

Contagionism catches onmedical ideology in Britain, 1730-1800 /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Contagionism catches onby Margaret DeLacy.
Reminder of title:	medical ideology in Britain, 1730-1800 /
Author:	DeLacy, Margaret.
Published:	Cham :Springer International Publishing :2017.
Description:	ix, 347 p. :digital ;22 cm.
Contained By:	Springer eBooks
Subject:	Communicable diseasesHistory18th century.
Online resource:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50959-4
ISBN:	9783319509594$q(electronic bk.)

Contagionism catches onmedical ideology in Britain, 1730-1800 /
DeLacy, Margaret.

Contagionism catches onmedical ideology in Britain, 1730-1800 /[electronic resource] :by Margaret DeLacy. - Cham :Springer International Publishing :2017. - ix, 347 p. :digital ;22 cm.

1. Introduction -- 2. Fever Theory and British Contagionism in the Mid-Eighteenth Century -- 3. Contagionism after 1750: John Pringle and James Lind -- 4. Animate Disease after 1750: The "Exanthemata Viva" -- 5. Counting and Classifying Disease: Contagion, Enumeration and Cullen's Nosology -- 6. John Haygarth and the Campaign for Contagion -- 7. Contagionism, Politics and the Public in Manchester -- 8. Institutionalizing Contagionism: The Manchester House of Recovery.

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.

ISBN: 9783319509594$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-319-50959-4doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

789495
Communicable diseases
--History--18th century.

LC Class. No.: RA643.7.G7 / D45 2017

Dewey Class. No.: 614.44

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