Melvin Santer

Confronting Contagion

Our Evolving Understanding of Disease

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A history of disease theory, from Classical Antiquity to modern times, discussing the various supposed causes to which people of different eras attributed disease.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 635g
• ISBN-13: 9780199356355
• ISBN-10: 0199356351
• Artikelnr.: 47866914

Autorenporträt

Professor Emeritus of biology at Haverford College. He has published many articles on the causes of infectious disease in both plants and animals, as well as on the history of disease theory.

Inhaltsangabe

Note to Reader
Prologue
Chapter 1: Homer-Hesiod-Torah-Greek Playwrights :
Chapter 2: Philosophers
Chapter 3: Hippocratic Writings
Chapter 4: Galen
Chapter 5: After Galen
Chapter 6: The Causes of Plague in Europe
Chapter 7: The Late Renaissance Period
Chapter 8: Mechanical Philosophy, the Revival of Atomism and Contagious Disease Theory in the 17th Century
Chapter 9: The Discovery of Microscopic Life
Chapter 10: The Cause of Plague in France
Chapter 11: Plant Diseases
Chapter 12: The Nineteenth Century
Chapter 13: Filterable Agents
Appendix