Knowledge in the time of cholera : the struggle over American medicine in the nineteenth century / Owen Whooley.

  • Whooley, Owen
Date:
2013
  • Books

About this work

Publication/Creation

Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2013.

Physical description

xiii, 307 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-294) and index.

Contents

Introduction : of cholera, quacks, and competing medical visions -- Choleric confusion -- The formation of the AMA, the creation of quacks -- The intellectual politics of filth -- Cholera becomes a microbe -- Capturing cholera, and epistemic authority, in the laboratory -- Conclusion : medicine after the time of cholera.

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  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    FK.6.AA8
    Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 9780226017464
  • 022601746X
  • 9780226017631
  • 022601763X