Homeopathy and the "Bacteriological Revolution" 1880-1895 : The Reception of Germ Theory and Bacteriology in 19th‐century England and Germany

Homeopathy and the "Bacteriological Revolution" 1880-1895 : The Reception of Germ Theory and Bacteriology in 19th‐century England and Germany

Carol‐Ann Galego

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FörlagKVC Verlag NATUR UND MEDIZIN e.V.
ISBN9783965620322

In her study, Carol-Ann Galego applies Michel Foucault's genealogical method to modern medicine's protracted war on pathogens. She excavates the early struggles that bacteriology generally, and in particular its articulation of germ theory, encountered before achieving widespread acceptance. The fo