The Gospel of Germs: Men, Women, and the Microbe in American Life

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Edition: 1
Release: 1998-04-07
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN/ASIN: 0674357078
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB

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AIDS. Ebola. "Killer microbes." All around us the alarms are going off, warning of the danger of new, deadly diseases. And yet, as Nancy Tomes reminds us in her absorbing book, this is really nothing new. A remarkable work of medical and cultural history, The Gospel of Germs takes us back to the first great "germ panic" in American history, which peaked in the early 1900s, to explore the origins of our modern disease consciousness. Little more than a hundred years ago, ordinary Americans had no idea that many deadly ailments were the work of microorganisms, let alone that their own behavior spread such diseases. The Gospel of Germs shows how the revolutionary findings of late nineteenth-century bacteriology made their way from the laboratory to the lavatory and kitchen, with public health reformers spreading the word and women taking up the battle on the domestic front. Drawing on a wealth of advice books, patent applications, advertisements, and oral histories, Tomes traces the n Download The Gospel of Germs for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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