Knowledge in the Time of Cholera - Owen Whooley

Knowledge in the Time of Cholera

The Struggle over American Medicine in the Nineteenth Century

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Buch | Softcover
328 Seiten
2013
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-01763-1 (ISBN)
37,40 inkl. MwSt
In 1832, the arrival of cholera in the United States created widespread panic throughout the country. In this title, the author tells the story of those dark days, centering his narrative on rivalries between medical and homeopathic practitioners.
Vomiting. Diarrhea. Dehydration. Death. Confusion. In 1832, the arrival of cholera in the United States created widespread panic throughout the country. For the rest of the century, epidemics swept through American cities and towns, killing thousands. Physicians of all stripes offered conflicting answers to the cholera puzzle, ineffectively responding with opiates, bleeding, quarantines, and all manner of remedies, before the identity of the dreaded infection was consolidated under the germ theory of disease some sixty years later. These cholera outbreaks raised fundamental questions about medical knowledge and its legitimacy, giving fuel to alternative medical sects that used the confusion of the epidemic to challenge both medical orthodoxy and the authority of the still-new American Medical Association. In "Knowledge in the Time of Cholera", Owen Whooley tells us the story of those dark days, centering his narrative on rivalries between medical and homeopathic practitioners and bringing to life the battle to control public understanding of disease, professional power, and democratic governance in nineteenth-century America.

Owen Whooley is assitant professor of sociology at the University of New Mexico.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 7.6.2013
Sprache englisch
Maße 15 x 23 mm
Gewicht 454 g
Themenwelt Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Neuzeit (bis 1918)
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Studium 2. Studienabschnitt (Klinik) Rechtsmedizin
Studium Querschnittsbereiche Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 0-226-01763-X / 022601763X
ISBN-13 978-0-226-01763-1 / 9780226017631
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