Feverish bodies, enlightened minds : science and the yellow fever controversy in the early American republic / Thomas A. Apel.
- Apel, Thomas A.
- Date:
- [2016]
- Books
About this work
Publication/Creation
Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2016]
Physical description
x, 191 pages ; 24 cm
Contributors
Contents
Contexts and causes -- "Declare the past" -- "Nature is the great experimenter" -- "Let not God intervene" -- "In politics as well as medicine"; or, The arrogance of the enlightened -- Conclusion : "a new era in the science of medicine"?
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-187) and index.
Languages
Subjects
- Yellow feverUnited StatesHistory18th century
- Yellow feverEtiologyHistory18th century
- EpidemicsUnited StatesHistory18th century
- DiseasesUnited StatesHistory18th century
- Medical sciencesUnited StatesHistory18th century
- DiseasesCauses and theories of causationHistory18th century
- Yellow Feverhistory
- Yellow Feverepidemiology
- History, 18th Century
- 18th century
- United Statesepidemiology
Where to find it
Location Status History of MedicineFU.6.AA7Open shelves
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Identifiers
ISBN
- 9780804797405
- 0804797404