contagionist

Examples

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• Many scientists were classified as contagionists because they believed diseases could spread from person to person.

• In the final decade of the nineteenth century, the germ theory of disease gradually became the dominant scientific paradigm of infection, replacing the contagionist and miasmatist theories that had previously been regarded as scientific orthodoxy.

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• So the education of patients then in contagionist theory was a part of the experience.

• But whereas Snow was a contagionist, Pettenkopfer reached the exact opposite conclusion.

• The social implications of contagionist practices are also foundational in providing the reader with a clear narrative of the spread of disease.

  Academic text (2007)

• Indeed, Smith even offered a reason for the contagionists' mistaken belief in the contagious, diseased individual.

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• Victorian liberals were equally concerned by contagionist theory's advocacy of social control as opposed to social rehabilitation.

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• It is important to understand something of both the contagionist and miasmatist positions in order to read Stoker's fiction accurately.

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• The concept of a contagionist suggests that emotions like fear can be transmitted through social interactions.

• Historically, contagionists argued that understanding how diseases spread was essential for public health.

Synonyms

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diffusionist

vscontagionist

• Specialized

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A person who thinks cultural ideas and technology spread between groups of people when they meet

focuses on spread between individuals by infection style transfer rather than society contact

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