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Our aim in writing this book, apart from presenting the first history of fungal diseases, was also to contribute to the historiography of medicine. In this conclusion, rather than restate and revisit our histories of particular mycoses, we focus on crosscutting themes concerning the history of infectious diseases, the limits of the medical gaze, the history of medical specialisation and biographies of disease.
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Homei, A., Worboys, M. (2013). Conclusion. In: Fungal Disease in Britain and the United States 1850–2000. Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137377029_7
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