Terms from Chapter 24
Terms
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- Germ Theory
- Theorized by Pasteur, belief that germs cause illness
- Gustave Flaubert
- French writer, Madame Bovary
- Miasmatic Theory
- Belief that bad smells caused illness
- Leo Tolstoy
- Russian writer - novelist, essayist, dramatist and philosopher. War and Peace and Anna Karenina
- Emile Zola
- Greatest of the naturalist/realist movement, Les Rougon-Macquart
- Marx
- Communist manifesto
- Horore de Balzac
- French novelist and playwright, La Comédie humaine
- Mendeleev
- Periodic table
- Lister
- Antiseptics, clean instruments/utensils
- Mesmer
- Mesmerism, early proponent of hypnotism
- Bessemer
- steel, no impurities
- Theodore Dreiser
- American author of the naturalist school, Sister Carrie and An American Tragedy
- Comte
- System of Postive Philosophy (social science)
- Hausmann
- engineer and architect who rebuilt Paris after burning and bulldozing it
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Russian novelist and writer of fiction whose works, including Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov
- Bentham
- "The Greatest good for the greatest number"
- George Eliot
- Mary Ann (Marian) Evans, English novelist, Middlemarch
- Chadwick
- Benthamite, Government Admin of Health, First public health laws
- Faraday
- electric dynamo
- Darwin
- Evolution, Descent of Man
- Koch
- cultivated and researched bacteria
- Lyell
- disputed Earth's creation through cataclysmic events
- Shelley
- British writer, Frankenstein
- Volta
- Created battery
- Lamark
- Early version of evolution, believed parents' skills were passed onto children
- Spencer
- Social Darwinism