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Evolution of microbiology as seen in the textbooks of Edwin O. Jordan and William H. Park.
Historians of science account the appearance of textbooks as an important step in the formation and consolidation of a new discipline. The texts of Park and Jordan were both very important in this light; however; they also can be used as a gauge of changing concepts within microbiology in the first...
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Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2579028/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11049163 |
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description | Historians of science account the appearance of textbooks as an important step in the formation and consolidation of a new discipline. The texts of Park and Jordan were both very important in this light; however; they also can be used as a gauge of changing concepts within microbiology in the first four decades after its consolidation as a discipline, 1900-1940. This paper tracks these important texts and through them changing attitudes toward several important concepts: bacterial variation, human/bovine tuberculosis, and the existence of a non-symptomatic carrier state in infectious disease. The two texts are also compared regarding their view of microbes as pathogens vs. microbes as important and ubiquitous ecological agents. |
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spelling | pubmed-25790282008-11-05 Evolution of microbiology as seen in the textbooks of Edwin O. Jordan and William H. Park. Strick, J. Yale J Biol Med Research Article Historians of science account the appearance of textbooks as an important step in the formation and consolidation of a new discipline. The texts of Park and Jordan were both very important in this light; however; they also can be used as a gauge of changing concepts within microbiology in the first four decades after its consolidation as a discipline, 1900-1940. This paper tracks these important texts and through them changing attitudes toward several important concepts: bacterial variation, human/bovine tuberculosis, and the existence of a non-symptomatic carrier state in infectious disease. The two texts are also compared regarding their view of microbes as pathogens vs. microbes as important and ubiquitous ecological agents. Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine 1999 /pmc/articles/PMC2579028/ /pubmed/11049163 Text en |
spellingShingle | Research Article Strick, J. Evolution of microbiology as seen in the textbooks of Edwin O. Jordan and William H. Park. |
title | Evolution of microbiology as seen in the textbooks of Edwin O. Jordan and William H. Park. |
title_full | Evolution of microbiology as seen in the textbooks of Edwin O. Jordan and William H. Park. |
title_fullStr | Evolution of microbiology as seen in the textbooks of Edwin O. Jordan and William H. Park. |
title_full_unstemmed | Evolution of microbiology as seen in the textbooks of Edwin O. Jordan and William H. Park. |
title_short | Evolution of microbiology as seen in the textbooks of Edwin O. Jordan and William H. Park. |
title_sort | evolution of microbiology as seen in the textbooks of edwin o. jordan and william h. park. |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2579028/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11049163 |
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