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Title Knowledge in the time of cholera [electronic resource] : the struggle over American medicine in the nineteenth century / Owen Whooley.

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Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2013.

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Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Axe ProQuest E-Book	Electronic Book	---	Available

Description	xiii, 307 p. : ill.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Introduction : of cholera, quacks, and competing medical visions -- Choleric confusion -- The formation of the AMA, the creation of quacks -- The intellectual politics of filth -- Cholera becomes a microbe -- Capturing cholera, and epistemic authority, in the laboratory -- Conclusion : medicine after the time of cholera.
Reproduction	Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject	Cholera -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
	Medicine -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
	Knowledge, Sociology of.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Added Author	ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN	9780226017464 (cloth : alkaline paper)
	9780226017631 (paperback : alkaline paper)
	9780226017778 (e-book)