Heredity and infection
Subtitle: the history of disease transmission
By: edited by Jean-Paul Gaudillière and Ilana Löwy
Contributors: Löwy, Ilana, 1948-; Gaudillière, Jean-Paul, 1957-
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2001
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 383
Subjects: Communicable diseases -- Transmission -- History; Infection; Genetics
Notes: Includes indexes and bibliographies
Table of contents: title: Horizontal and vertical transmission of diseases : the impossible separation / Jean-Paul Gaudillière and Ilana Löwy; title: Medicine and the making of bodily inequality in twentieth-century Europe / J. Andrew Mendelsohn; title: From heredity to infection? Tuberculosis, 1870-1890 / Michael Worboys; title: Purity and danger in colour : notes on germ theory and the semantics of segregation, 1895-1915 / JoAnne Brown; title: Standardizing epidemics : infection, inheritance and environment in prewar experimental epidemiology / Olga Amsterdamska; title: Making heredity in mice and men : the production and uses of animal models in postwar human genetics / Jean-Paul Gaudillière; title: Experimental platforms and technologies of visualisation : cancer as viral epidemic, 1930-1960 / Angela N.H. Creager and Jean-Paul Gaudillière; title: Degeneration theory and heredity patterns between 1850 and 1900 / Patrice Pinell; title: Hereditary diseases and environmental factors in the 'mixed economy' of public health : René Sand and the French social medicine, 1920-1934 / Patrick Zylberman; title: From family pedigrees to molecular markers : on cancer and heredity at St Mark's Hospital, 1924-1995 / Paolo Palladino; title: Vertical ancestries and horizontal risks : hepatitis B and AIDS / Jennifer Stanton and Virginia Berridge; title: Predispositions, cofactors and images of AIDS / Ilana Löwy