Titlebook: Contagionism Catches On; Medical Ideology in Margaret DeLacy Book 2017 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017 contagionism.1

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-29542-7r summarizes the thesis and other similar works by Linnaeus’s circle, and discusses the reception of the idea among British physicians through the rest of the eighteenth century and beyond. Linnaeus’s theory did not become part of the contagionist mainstream but it was never completely abandoned. Ho

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50959-4contagionism; 18th century Britain; social history; medical history; Linnaeus

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978-3-319-84531-9The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017

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Margaret DeLacyProvides the social outcome of the acceptance of contagionism, proposed and explored in DeLacy’s first book, The Germ of an Idea (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016).Appeals to cultural and social historians, a