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This book shows how contagionism evolved in eighteenth century
Britain and describes the consequences of this evolution. By the
late eighteenth century, the British medical profession was divided
between traditionalists, who attributed acute diseases to the
interaction of internal imbalances with external factors such as
weather, and reformers, who blamed contagious pathogens. The
reformers, who were often "outsiders," English Nonconformists or
men born outside England, emerged from three coincidental
transformations: transformation in medical ideas, in the nature and
content of medical education, and in the sort of men who became
physicians. Adopting contagionism led them to see acute diseases as
separate entities, spurring a process that reoriented medical
research, changed communities, established new medical
institutions, and continues to the present day.
Contagionism is an old idea, but gained new life in Restoration
Britain. The Germ of an Idea considers British contagionism in its
religious, social, political and professional context from the
Great Plague of London to the adoption of smallpox inoculation. It
shows how ideas about contagion changed medicine and the
understanding of acute diseases.
Contagionism is an old idea, but gained new life in Restoration
Britain. The Germ of an Idea considers British contagionism in its
religious, social, political and professional context from the
Great Plague of London to the adoption of smallpox inoculation. It
shows how ideas about contagion changed medicine and the
understanding of acute diseases.
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