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International Journal of Epidemiology 2009 38(1):31-33; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn255
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Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Epidemiological Association © The Author 2009; all rights reserved.

Commentary: Disease etiology and political ideology: revisiting Erwin H Ackerknecht's Classic 1948 Essay, ‘Anticontagionism between 1821 and 1867’

Alexandra Minna Stern* and Howard Markel

Center for the History of Medicine, University of Michigan, MI, USA.

* Corresponding author. Center for the History of Medicine, University of Michigan, MI, USA. E-mail: amstern@umich.edu

Accepted 3 June 2008

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Virtually every academic society sponsors an annual address given by one of its leading lights, and the American Association of the History of Medicine is no exception. The Garrison Lecture, named for the eminent historian Fielding H Garrison, was established in 1940 and continues to be a major event for historians of medicine to this day. Yet relatively few are read and cited as much as the seminal lecture ‘Anticontagionism between 1821 and 1867,’ delivered by Erwin Ackerknecht in 1947 and published the following year (as is every Garrison lecture) in the Bulletin of the History of Medicine. For 60 years, this essay has shown remarkable intellectual staying power and continues to engage and provoke historians, above all those who study epidemics, public health and theories of disease causation and transmission across time. Moreover, even as scholars have mobilized fresh evidence that challenges and complicates Ackerknecht's thesis, the analytical . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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