The Gospel of Germs
Men, Women, and the Microbe in American Life
by Nancy Tomes
351 pages· ISBN 9780674357082
About
Traces Americans' awareness of microbes as an agent of disease and analyzes the resultant cultural construction of cleanliness from 1870 to the present
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