- Preface: Memories of Disease Past
- Introduction: The Gospel of Germs
- I. The Gospel Emergent, 1870–1890
- Apostles of the Germ
- Whited Sepulchers
- Entrepreneurs of the Germ
- II. The Gospel Triumphant, 1890–1920
- Disciples of the Laboratory
- Tuberculosis Religion
- The Domestication of the Germ
- III. The Gospel in Practice, 1900–1930
- Antisepticonscious America
- The Wages of Dirt Were Death
- The Two-Edged Sword
- IV. The Gospel in Retreat
- The Waning of Enthusiasm
- Epilogue: The Gospel of Germs in the Age of AIDS
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index
The Gospel of Germs
Men, Women, and the Microbe in American Life
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ISBN 9780674357082
Publication Date: 09/01/1999
Awards & Accolades
- 2002 William H. Welch Medal, American Association for the History of Medicine
- 2001 Watson Davis and Helen Miles Davis Prize, History of Science Society
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