Contagionism Catches on: Medical Ideology in Britain, 1730-1800 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9783319509587)

1. Introduction

2. Fever Theory and British Contagionism in the Mid-Eighteenth Century

3. Contagionism after 1750: John Pringle and James Lind

4. Animate Disease after 1750: The "Exanthemata Viva"

5. Counting and Classifying Disease: Contagion, Enumeration and Cullen's Nosology

6. John Haygarth and the Campaign for Contagion

7. Contagionism, Politics and the Public in Manchester

8. Institutionalizing Contagionism: The Manchester House of Recovery