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The gospel of germs [electronic resource] : men, women, and the microbe in American life / Nancy Tomes.

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Little more than a hundred years ago, ordinary Americans had no idea that many deadly ailments were the work of microorganisms, let alone that their own behavior spread such diseases. The Gospel of Germs shows how the revolutionary findings of late-nineteenth-century bacteriology made their way from...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ACLS)
Main Author: Tomes, Nancy, 1952-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, ©1998.
Series:ACLS Humanities E-Book.
Subjects:
Germ theory of disease > Public opinion > History > 19th century.
Germ theory of disease > Public opinion > History > 20th century.
Hygiene > United States > History > 19th century.
Hygiene > United States > History > 20th century.
Hygiene.
Public health.
Therapeutics.
Sociology.
Medical care.
Social sciences.
Germ theory of disease > Public opinion.
United States.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • [part] 1. The gospel emergent, 1870-1890
  • 1. Apostles of the germ
  • 2. Whited sepulchers
  • 3. Entrepreneurs of the germ
  • [part] 2. The gospel triumphant, 1890-1920
  • 4. Disciples of the laboratory
  • 5. Tuberculosis religion
  • 6. The domestication of the germ
  • [part] 3. The gospel in practice, 1900-1930
  • 7. Antisepticonscious America
  • 8. The wages of dirt were death
  • 9. The two-edged sword
  • [part] 4. The gospel in retreat
  • 10. The waning of enthusiasm.

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