Heredity and infection : the history of disease transmission
- Title
- Heredity and infection : the history of disease transmission / edited by Jean-Paul Gaudillière and Ilana Löwy.
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- London ; New York : Routledge, 2001.
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- Description
- ix, 383 pages : illustrations, portraits; 24 cm.
- Series statement
- Studies in the history of science, technology, and medicine ; v. 14
- Uniform title
- Studies in the history of science, technology, and medicine ; v. 14.
- Subject
- Contents
- Horizontal and vertical transmission of diseases : the impossible separation / Jean-Paul Gaudillière and Ilana Löwy -- Medicine and the making of bodily inequality in twentieth-century Europe / J. Andrew Mendelsohn -- From heredity to infection? : tuberculosis, 1870-1890 / Michael Worboys -- Purity and danger in colour : notes on germ theory and the semantics of segregation, 1895-1915 / JoAnne Brown -- Standardizing epidemics : infection, inheritance and environment in prewar experimental epidemiology / Olga Amsterdamska -- Making heredity in mice and men : the production and uses of animal models in postwar human genetics / Jean-Paul Gaudillière -- Experimental platforms and technologies of visualisation : cancer as viral epidemic, 1930-1960 / Angela N.H. Creager and Jean-Paul Gaudillière -- Degeneration theory and heredity patterns between 1850 and 1900 / Patrice Pinell -- Hereditary diseases and environmental factors in the 'mixed economy' of public health : René Sand and the French social medicine, 1920-1934 / Patrick Zylberman -- From family pedigrees to molecular markers : on cancer and heredity at St Mark's Hospital, 1924-1995 / Paolo Palladino --Vertical ancestries and horizontal risks : hepatitis B and AIDS / Jennifer Stanton and Virginia Berridge -- Predispositions, cofactors and images of AIDS / Ilana Löwy.
- Owning institution
- Columbia University Libraries
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.