LEADER 03639oam 2200553I 450 001 9910954006403321 005 20251117090102.0 010 $a1-138-24812-6 010 $a1-315-23730-X 010 $a1-351-88264-3 024 7 $a10.4324/9781315237305 035 $a(CKB)3710000001081808 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4817366 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4817366 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11356536 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL997470 035 $a(OCoLC)975222636 035 $a(OCoLC)974642092 035 $a(BIP)56671184 035 $a(BIP)7589858 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001081808 100 $a20180706e20162003 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe rise of causal concepts of disease $ecase histories /$fK. Codell Carter 210 1$aLondon ;$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2016. 215 $a1 online resource (248 pages) 225 1 $aThe History of Medicine in Context 300 $aFirst published 2003 by Ashgate Publishing. 311 08$a0-7546-0678-3 311 08$a1-351-88265-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a1. Causes of disease in early nineteenth-century practical medicine -- 2. Universal necessary causes -- 3. Etiological characterizations -- 4. Microorganisms as causes -- 5. The bacterial hypothesis -- 6. A bacterial theory of disease -- 7. Proving disease causation -- 8. The etiological standpoint -- 9. An ideational theory of disease -- 10. Protozoal and viral theories of disease -- 11. A nutritional deficiency theory of disease. 330 $aMuch of contemporary medical theory and practice focuses on the identification of specific causes of disease. However, this has not always been the case: until the early nineteenth century physicians thought of diseases in quite different terms. The modern quest for causes of disease can be seen as a single Lakatosian research programme. One can track the rise and elaboration of this programme by a series of case histories. The success of work on bacterial diseases such as cholera and tuberculosis tends to eclipse the broad context in which those studies were embedded. Yet, in the 1830s, fifty years before Koch's publications on tuberculosis, specific causes were already being identified for several non-bacterial diseases including scabies, muscardine and ringworm. Moreover, by the end of the century, the quest for specific causes had spread well beyond bacterial diseases. The expanding research programme included Freud's early work on psychopathology, the discovery of viruses, the discovery of vitamins, and the recognition of genetic disorders such as Down's syndrome. Existing historical discussions of research in these areas, for example, histories of work on the deficiencies diseases, take the view that success in bacteriology was a positive obstacle to the identification of causes for other kinds of diseases. Treating the quest for causes as a single coherent research programme provides a better understanding of the disease concepts that characterise the last 150 years of medical thought. 410 0$aHistory of medicine in context. 606 $aDiseases$xCauses and theories of causation$xHistory 615 0$aDiseases$xCauses and theories of causation$xHistory. 676 $a616.07/1 700 $aCarter$b K. Codell$g(Kay Codell),$f1939-,$0202440 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910954006403321 996 $aThe rise of causal concepts of disease$94479483 997 $aUNINA