Program

Research Programs: Humanities, Science, and Technology

Period of Performance

1/1/1993 - 8/31/1997

Funding Totals

$129,000.00 (approved)
$129,000.00 (awarded)


Spreading the Germ Theory of Disease

FAIN: RH-21055-92

SUNY Research Foundation, Stony Brook (Stony Brook, NY 11794-0001)
Nancy Tomes (Project Director: October 1991 to January 1998)

To support a study of the impact of the germ theory of disease on the American public that will analyze how concepts of infection were communicated and how they changed private hygienic behavior.





Associated Products

The Gospel of Germs: Men, Women, and the Microbe in American Life (Book)
Title: The Gospel of Germs: Men, Women, and the Microbe in American Life
Author: Tomes, Nancy
Year: 1998
Primary URL: https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=9780674357082
Primary URL Description: WorldCat entry
Publisher: Cambridge: Harvard University Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780674357082