Feverish Bodies, Enlightened Minds : Science and the Yellow Fever Controversy in the Early American Republic /

From 1793 to 1805, yellow fever devastated U.S. port cities in a series of terrifying epidemics. The search for the cause and prevention of the disease involved many prominent American intellectuals, including Noah Webster and Benjamin Rush. This investigation produced one of the most substantial an...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Apel, Thomas (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, [2020]
Temas:
Diseases > Causes and theories of causation > History > 18th century.
Diseases > United States > History > 18th century.
Epidemics > United States > History > 18th century.
Medical sciences > United States > History > 18th century.
Yellow fever > Etiology > History > 18th century.
Yellow fever > United States > History > 18th century.
common sense.
contagionist.
disease causation.
early republic.
history of science and medicine.
localist.
miasmatist.
yellow fever.
SCIENCE / History.
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