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The Gospel of Germs

Men, Women, and the Microbe in American Life

Nancy Tomes

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ISBN 9780674357082

Publication Date: 09/01/1999

368 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

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Nancy Tomes is Professor of History, State University of New York at Stony Brook, and author of The Art of Asylum-Keeping: Thomas Story Kirkbride and the Origins of American Psychiatry.

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Via C-SPAN’s American History TV, watch Nancy Tomes lecture (on March 10, 2020, during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic) on the 1918 influenza pandemic and public information efforts in the United States to stop the spread of the disease

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