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The Gospel of Germs
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Tomes, Nancy
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ISBN: 9780674357082 | 0674357086
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 9/1/1999
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Summary
Author Biography
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impact on twentieth-century culture and society, and its troubling new relevance to our own lives.
Nancy Tomes is Professor of History, State University of New York at Stony Brook.
Preface: Memories of Disease Past
p. xi
Introduction: The Gospel of Germs
p. 1
The Gospel Emergent, 1870-1890
Apostles of the Germ
p. 23
Whited Sepulchers
p. 48
Entrepreneurs of the Germ
p. 68
The Gospel Triumphant, 1890-1920
Disciples of the Laboratory
p. 91
Tuberculosis Religion
p. 113
The Domestication of the Germ
p. 135
The Gospel in Practice, 1900-1930
Antisepticonscious America
p. 157
The Wages of Dirt Were Death
p. 183
The Two-Edged Sword
p. 205
The Gospel in Retreat
The Waning of Enthusiasm
p. 237
Epilogue: The Gospel of Germs in the Age of AIDS
p. 256
Notes
p. 269
Acknowledgments
p. 343
Index
p. 347
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