Feverish bodies, enlightened minds : science and the yellow fever controversy in the early American republic / Thomas A. Apel.

  • Apel, Thomas A.
Date:
[2016]
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Publication/Creation

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2016]

Physical description

x, 191 pages ; 24 cm

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-187) and index.

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"?

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    History of Medicine
    FU.6.AA7
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  • 9780804797405
  • 0804797404