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| Title |
The protagonist microbe: notes on the communication of bacteriology in the Gazeta Médica da Bahia journal, nineteenth century
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| Published in |
História, Ciências, Saúde-Manguinhos, July 2016
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| DOI | 10.1590/s0104-59702016005000015 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Anderson Gonçalves Malaquias |
| Abstract |
Germ theory, derived particularly from the work of Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch, shook the foundations of medical knowledge in the second half of the nineteenth century and triggered a revolution in the "art of healing." The search for specific microbes for diseases guided the investigations of the researchers converted to the Pasteurian tenets. This paper aims to show what role the Gazeta Médica da Bahia journal played in spreading knowledge about bacteriology to the medical communities in Bahia and throughout Brazil. Some works and reflections by the newspaper's authors at the time are presented, as are some of the controversies that help depict the way germ theory was divulged in Brazil throughout the nineteenth century. |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 7 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 7 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Bachelor | 2 | 29% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 2 | 29% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 1 | 14% |
| Professor | 1 | 14% |
| Unknown | 1 | 14% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 3 | 43% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 1 | 14% |
| Arts and Humanities | 1 | 14% |
| Chemistry | 1 | 14% |
| Engineering | 1 | 14% |
| Other | 0 | 0% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 5. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 19 November 2020.
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