Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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6135744 | Microbes and Infection | 2014 | 8 Pages |
Abstract
This article explores one of a citation classics in medical literature-Koch's postulates. It analyses their creation in the nineteenth century and their popularity in the twentieth century. As a genre of historiography, references to the postulates are anecdotes. In referring to a historical event that never happened, such references serve to remind their audiences of a tradition of experimental medicine that supposedly originated with Robert Koch.
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Authors
Christoph Gradmann,