Heredity and infection : the history of disease transmission

Title
  1. Heredity and infection : the history of disease transmission / edited by Jean-Paul Gaudillière and Ilana Löwy.
Published by
  1. London ; New York : Routledge, 2001.

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Additional authors
  1. Gaudillière, Jean-Paul, 1957-
  2. Löwy, Ilana, 1948-
Description
  1. ix, 383 pages : illustrations, portraits; 24 cm.
Series statement
  1. Studies in the history of science, technology, and medicine ; v. 14
Uniform title
  1. Studies in the history of science, technology, and medicine ; v. 14.
Subject
  1. Génétique médicale
  2. Disease Transmission, Infectious > history
  3. Communicable diseases > Transmission
  4. Infection
  5. Genetic disorders
  6. Maladies infectieuses > Transmission > Histoire
  7. Social Medicine > history
  8. Immunogenetics > history
Contents
  1. 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
  1. Columbia University Libraries
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and indexes.