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

Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2013.

xiii, 307 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

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.

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