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| Historians have tended to divide disease theorists into rival camps: miasmatists versus contagionists. Historians have tended to divide disease theorists into rival camps: miasmatists versus contagionists. The debate between contagionists and anticontagionists around the time of the cholera epidemic of 1832 reflected competing views of political authority and economic freedom (the liberal elites associated quarantines with the arbitrary use of power in the Old Regime) but also the reality of social division and the possibility that coercive measures might provoke popular revolts. |
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