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Confronting contagion : our evolving understanding of disease / Melvin Santer.

By: Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2015]Description: xix, 353 pages ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780199356355 (hbk. : acidfree paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 616.9 23
LOC classification:
  • RA643 .S356 2015
NLM classification:
  • WC 11.1
Contents:
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 CD. 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.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-331) and index.

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 CD. 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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