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The Gospel of Germs: Men, Women, and the Microbe in American Life

Nancy Tomes

Shows how the scientific knowledge about the role of microorganisms in disease made its way into American popular culture.

Medicine & Public HealthMedicine & Public Health · medium confidenceMedicine & Public Health81 signalsLlm Classifier: Medicine & Public Health -> Medicine & Public HealthKeyword Classifier: American History -> American HistoryKeyword Classifier: Gender & Sexuality -> Gender & SexualityGender & FeminismLGBTQ History & Life

Award History

0 wins · 1 total

AwardYearResultCategory / Notes
Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History1998FinalistSecondary source
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  1. 01 Central figures

    None extracted with sufficient confidence.

  2. 02 Central places

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  3. 03 Suggested argument

    Scientific knowledge about microorganisms’ role in disease was transmitted into American popular culture.

    Model confidence 62%

  4. 04 Reading orientation

    61 / 100 academic

    Academic

    An estimate of intended readership and scholarly apparatus—not quality or importance.

Confidence percentages are the model's own estimates. Profile confidence: 60%.