Contagion explores cultural responses of infectious diseases and their biomedical management over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It also investigates the use of 'contagion' as a concept in postmodern research.
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Place: UK
Publication Year: 2001-06-28
Language: English
Number of Pages: 256
Edition: 1
Series: Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine
Tracing development of scientific sociology from Comte onwards, this book provides a narrative history of figures, ideas, and schools that lie behind ..