Contagionism and Contagious Diseases : Medicine and Literature 1880-1933 /

Contagionism and Contagious Diseases : Medicine and Literature 1880-1933 /

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The idea of contagious transmission, either by material particles or by infectious ideas, has played a powerful role in the development of the Western World since antiquity. Yet it acquired quite a precise signature during the process of scientific and cultural differentiation in the 19th and early...

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Corporate Author: De Gruyter
Other Authors: Anz, Thomas (Contributor, https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb), Briese, Olaf (Contributor, https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb), Elsaghe, Yahya (Contributor, https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb), Gradmann, Christoph (Contributor, https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb), King, Martina (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt, Contributor, https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb), Käser, Rudolf (Contributor, https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb), Montiel, Luis (Contributor, https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb), Rousseau, G. S (George Sebastian) (Contributor, https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb), Rütten, Thomas (Contributor, https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb), Rütten, Thomas (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Saul, Nicholas (Contributor, https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb), Wald, Priscilla (Contributor, https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2013]
Series:spectrum Literaturwissenschaft / spectrum Literature : Komparatistische Studien / Comparative Studies , 38
Subjects:
Communicable diseases in literature
Contagion (Social psychology)
Literature and medicine
Ansteckung
Bakteriologie
Krankheitsnarrative
Literarische Moderne
Metaphern, medizinische
MEDICAL / History
Contagionism
bacteriology
illness narratives
literary Modernism
medical metaphors

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