Achieving disbelief: Thought styles, microbial variation, and American and British epidemiology, 1900-1940

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C :Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 483-507

  Amsterdamska, Olga ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bacterial variation; Experimental epidemiology; History of bacteriology; History of epidemiology; Ludwik Fleck; Thought styles

Indexed keywords

EID: 11144297154     PISSN: 13698486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.shpsc.2004.06.001     Document Type: Article

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