Contagionism Catches On (Hardcover)

Name: Contagionism Catches On
Author: Margaret Delacy

Medical Ideology in Britain, 1730-1800

von Margaret Delacy Verlag: Springer International Publishing

1st ed. 2017 - Erschienen 03.08.2017 - Gebunden, 360 Seiten, 216mm x 153mm x 24mm, Sprache(n): eng

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Provides the social outcome of the acceptance of contagionism, proposed and explored in DeLacy's first book, The Germ of an Idea (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016)Appeals to cultural and social historians, as well as historians of medicine and eighteenth century BritainDescribes the consequences of the evolution of contagionism in eighteenth century Britain

This book shows how contagionism evolved in eighteenth century Britain and describes the consequences of this evolution. By the late eighteenth century, the British medical profession was divided between traditionalists, who attributed acute diseases to the interaction of internal imbalances with external factors such as weather, and reformers, who blamed contagious pathogens. The reformers, who were often ¿outsiders, ¿ English Nonconformists or men born outside England, emerged from three coincidental transformations: transformation in medical ideas, in the nature and content of medical education, and in the sort of men who became physicians. Adopting contagionism led them to see acute diseases as separate entities, spurring a process that reoriented medical research, changed communities, established new medical institutions, and continues to the present day.

Margaret DeLacy is the author of The Germ of an Idea: Contagionism, Religion and Society in Britain, 1660-1730 (Palgrave MacMillan, 2016), Prison Reform in Lancashire, 1700-1850: A Study in County Administration (Stanford University Press, 1986), and articles on medical history. She is an independent scholar in Portland Oregon.

Margaret DeLacy is the author of The Germ of an Idea: Contagionism, Religion and Society in Britain, 1660-1730 (Palgrave MacMillan, 2016), Prison Reform in Lancashire, 1700-1850: A Study in County Administration (Stanford University Press, 1986), and articles on medical history. She is an independent scholar in Portland Oregon.

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