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Heredity and Infection: The History of Disease Transmission

Heredity and Infection: The History of Disease Transmission

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Science, Technology and, Book 14

Medical Reference

ISBN10: 0415271207
ISBN13: 9780415271202
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Sep 6 2001
Pages: 394
Weight: 1.50
Height: 1.07 Width: 6.04 Depth: 9.48
Language: English

Ideas about the transmission of disease have long formed the core of modern biology and medicine. Heredity and Infection examines their development over the last century. Two scientific revolutions - the bacteriological revolution of the 1890s and the genetic revolution at the start of the twentieth century - acted as the catalysts of major change in our understanding of the causes of illness. As well as being great scientific achievements, these were social and political watersheds that reconfigured the medical and administrative means of intervention. By establishing a clear distinction between transmission by infection and genetic transmission, this shift was instrumental in separating hygiene from eugenism.

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