X Disease | Disease X: Medical Mystery-Solving and Epidemiological Change

This thesis addresses epidemiological knowledge-making in the face of new, unknown, emerging diseases. It uses two cases, Australian X Disease of the early 1900s and Disease X of the dawning 2000s, to broadly interrogate how medical mystery-solvers marshall forms of experimentation and classificatio...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Robbins, Gabrielle
Other Authors: Wallley, Christine J.
Format: Thesis
Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2023
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/147295