title: Death in Hamburg: Society and Politics in the Cholera Years, 1830-1910
author:  Richard J. Evans 
description: "A brilliantly written work of great analytical penetration."&#160;&mdash;<b>Gordon A. Craig</b>, <b>The New York Review of Books</b>
zlib_text: Knowledge in the Time of Cholera
  
  KNOWLEDGE 
  in the 
  TIME OF CHOLERA
  THE STRUGGLE OVER 
  AMERICAN MEDICINE IN THE 
  NINETEENTH CENTURY
  OWEN WHOOLEY
  THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS
  Chicago and London
  
  OWEN WHOOLEY is assistant professor of sociology at the University of New Mexico.
  � e University of Chicago Press, Chicago 60637
  � e University of Chicago Press, Ltd., London
  © 2013 by � e University of Chicago
  All rights reserved. Published 2013.
  Printed in the United States of America
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  isbn-13: 978-0-226-01746-4 
  (cloth)
  isbn-13: 978-0-226-01763-1 
  (paper)
  isbn-13: 978-0-226-01777-8 
  (e-book)
  Parts of chapters 1 and 2 were published in “Organization Formation as 
  Epistemic Practice: � e Early Epistemological Function of the 
  American Medical Association,” Qualitative Sociology 33, no. 4 (2011): 491–511.
  Reprinted with kind permission from Springer Science+Business Media.
  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
  Whooley, Owen, author.
   
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