Heredity and infection : the history of disease transmission /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Gaudillière, Jean-Paul, 1957-, Löwy, Ilana, 1948-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2001.
Series:Studies in the history of science, technology and medicine ; v. 14.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • 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.