The Conquest of Epidemic Disease: A Chapter in the History of Ideas

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Univ of Wisconsin Press, 1980 - History - 411 pages
The Conquest of Epidemic Disease, Charles-Edward Amory Winslow's classic study in the history of medicine and public health, returns to print in this attractive paperback editon for students, scholars, and practitioners.

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Contents

THE WORLD OF DEMONS
3
THE WRATH OF GOD
35
METAPHYSICAL MEDICINE
40
THE UNIVERSE OF NATURAL LAW
53
PRIMITIVE CONCEPTS OF CONTAGION
75
THE GREAT TEACHER
88
FRACASTORIUS
117
THE CONCEPTION OF A CONTAGIUM ANIMATUM
144
THE GREAT SANITARY AWAKENING
236
THREE PIONEER EPIDEMIOLOGISTS
267
PASTEUR
291
PETTENKOFERTHE LAST STAND
311
THE CONCEPT OF THE CARRIER
337
THE INSECT HOST
347
THE MODES OF INFECTION
362
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
383

THE ENGLISH HIPPOCRATES
161
THE LAST OF THE PLAGUE TRACTATES
176
THE ENIGMA OF YELLOW FEVER
193
REFERENCES
384
INDEX
399
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Charles-Edward Amory Winslow (1977-1957) spent the greater part of his long and distinguished career at the Yale Medical School, where he was Anna M. R. Lauder Professor of Public Health until his retirement in 1945. He was the author of hundreds of articles and more than twenty books, including the present work, which was originally published in 1943 by the Princeton University Press.

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