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Contagionists believed cholera was caused by:
A) Bad air
B) Contact with animals
C) Spoiled food
D) Contaminated water
E) Personal contact
Miasmatists believed cholera was caused by:
A) Bad air
B) Contact with animals
C) Spoiled food
D) Contaminated water
E) Personal contact
What is a paradigm?
A) Container for waste
B) Sewer technology
C) Twenty cents
D) Shared assumptions
E) Revealed truth
What did Snow/Whitehead base their argument on?
A) Multimodal research
B) Experiments on rats
C) Faulty cause and effect
D) Governmental documents
E) Intimidation
What did Chadwick base his argument on?
A) Multimodal research
B) Experiments on rats
C) Faulty cause and effect
D) Governmental documents
E) Intimidation


[first day]
Idea of Competing Arguments
• Contagionists v. Miasmatists v. The other
• Paradigm
[second day]
Elements that made Snow/Whitehead successful arguers
• Ethos/Presence
Elements that caused the Miasmatists’ argument to fail?
Turning Point