The Gospel of Germs: Men, Women, and the Microbe in American LifeHarvard University Press, 1998 - 351 Seiten AIDS. Ebola. "Killer microbes." All around us the alarms are going off, warning of the danger of new, deadly diseases. And yet, as Nancy Tomes reminds us in her absorbing book, this is really nothing new. A remarkable work of medical and cultural history, The Gospel of Germs takes us back to the first great "germ panic" in American history, which peaked in the early 1900s, to explore the origins of our modern disease consciousness. |
Inhalt
The Gospel of Germs | 1 |
Apostles of the Germ | 23 |
Whited Sepulchers | 48 |
Entrepreneurs of the Germ | 68 |
Disciples of the Laboratory | 91 |
Tuberculosis Religion | 113 |
The Domestication of the Germ | 135 |
Antisepticonscious America | 157 |
The Wages of Dirt Were Death | 183 |
The TwoEdged Sword | 205 |
The Waning of Enthusiasm | 237 |
The Gospel of Germs in the Age of AIDS | 256 |
Notes | 269 |
Acknowledgments | 343 |
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The Gospel of Germs: Men, Women, and the Microbe in American Life Nancy Tomes Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 1999 |