Research Catalog

Details

Description

1. xviii, 305 pages; 23 cm

Subject

1. 1600-1799
2. Medicine > Great Britain > History > 17th century
3. Medicine > Great Britain > History > 18th century
4. Epidemics > Great Britain > History
5. Plague > Great Britain > History
6. Medicine > Philosophy
7. Diseases > Philosophy
8. Medicine > Religious aspects
9. Epidemics
10. Medicine
11. Plague
12. Germ Theory of Disease > history
13. Sociological Factors
14. Religion and Medicine
15. History, 17th Century
16. History, 18th Century
17. Great Britain

Genre/Form

1. History.

Contents

1. 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

1. JFE 17-385

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Author

1. DeLacy, Margaret, author.

Title

1. The germ of an idea : contagionism, religion and society in Britain, 1660-1730 / Margaret DeLacy.

Publisher

1. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local note

1. FOCUS ON PHYSICIANS AND MEDICAL AUTHORS WHO WERE OUTSIDE THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND.

Chronological term

1. 1600-1799

LCCN

1. 2015023117

Other standard identifier

1. 40025813733

ISBN

1. 9781137575272 (hardback : alk. paper)
2. 1137575271 (hardback : alk. paper)

Research call number

1. JFE 17-385