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The germ of an idea : contagionism, religion and society in Britain, 1660-1730
- Title
- The germ of an idea : contagionism, religion and society in Britain, 1660-1730 / Margaret DeLacy.
- Author
- DeLacy, Margaret
- Publication
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
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Details
- Description
- xviii, 305 pages; 23 cm
- Subject
- 1600-1799
- Medicine > Great Britain > History > 17th century
- Medicine > Great Britain > History > 18th century
- Epidemics > Great Britain > History
- Plague > Great Britain > History
- Medicine > Philosophy
- Diseases > Philosophy
- Medicine > Religious aspects
- Epidemics
- Medicine
- Plague
- Germ Theory of Disease > history
- Sociological Factors
- Religion and Medicine
- History, 17th Century
- History, 18th Century
- Great Britain
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: medical theory in early modern Europe -- Restoration medicine and the dissenters -- Populist writing on diseases in the late seventeenth century -- The search for middle ground: disease theory as natural history -- Animalcules and animals -- English contagionism and Hans Sloane's circle -- An English treatise on living contagion: Benjamin Marten's new theory of consumptions, 1720 -- Smallpox inoculation and the Royal Society, 1700-1723 -- Contagion and plague in the eighteenth century.
- Call Number
- JFE 17-385
- ISBN
- 9781137575272 (hardback : alk. paper)
- 1137575271 (hardback : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2015023117
- 40025813733
- OCLC
- 917340697
- Author
- DeLacy, Margaret, author.
- Title
- The germ of an idea : contagionism, religion and society in Britain, 1660-1730 / Margaret DeLacy.
- Publisher
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Note
- FOCUS ON PHYSICIANS AND MEDICAL AUTHORS WHO WERE OUTSIDE THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND.
- Chronological Term
- 1600-1799
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40025813733
- Research Call Number
- JFE 17-385