Confronting contagion : our evolving understanding of disease /

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"Throughout history, mankind's working theories regarding the cause of infectious disease have shifted drastically, as cultures developed their philosophic, religious, and scientific beliefs. Plagues that were originally attributed to the wrath of the gods were later described as having no...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Santer, Melvin (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford, England ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2015.
Temas:
Communicable diseases.
Communicable Diseases > history
Communicable Diseases
Communicable Diseases > etiology
Disease Outbreaks > history
Germ Theory of Disease > history
Maladies infectieuses.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > General.
MEDICAL > Clinical Medicine.
MEDICAL > Diseases.
MEDICAL > Evidence-Based Medicine.
MEDICAL > Internal Medicine.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Homer-Hesiod-Torah-Greek Playwrights
  • Philosophers
  • Hippocratic Writings
  • Galen
  • After Galen
  • The Causes of Plague (The Black Death) in Europe 1348-1350 CE
  • The Late Renaissance Period
  • Mechanical Philosophy, the Revival of Atomism, and Contagious Disease Theory in the Seventeenth Century
  • The Discovery of Microscopic Life
  • The Cause of Plague in France in 1720 CE
  • Plant Diseases Are Caused by Living Microscopic Cells (Fungi) That Are Not Spontaneously Generated
  • The Nineteenth Century
  • Filterable Agents, Designated as Viruses, Cause Contagious Diseases of Plants, Animals, Humans, and Bacteria.

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