Title: The conquest of epidemic disease : a chapter in the history of ideas /
Authors: Winslow, C.-E. A. 1877-1957
Publisher: Princeton University Press,
Year: 1944
Subjects: Epidemics; Communicable diseases Prevention; Medicine History; Communicable Disease Control; Epidemiology; History of Medicine; Public Health history
Abstract: This book details the history of epidemic disease and the causation theories associated with epidemics.
Contents: World of demons -- The wrath of god -- Metaphysical medicine -- The universe of natural law -- Primitive concepts of contagion -- The great teacher -- Fracastorius -- The conception of a contagium animatum -- The English Hippocrates -- The last of the plague tractates -- The enigma of yellow fever -- The great sanitary awakening -- Three pioneer epidemiologists -- Pasteur -- Pettenkofer: the last stand -- The concept of the carrier -- The insect host -- The modes of infection.