Spreading Germs - Disease Theories and Medical Practice in Britain, 1865–1900

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Illustrations; Abbreviations; Preface; Introduction; 1. Medical practice and disease theories, c.1865; 2. Veterinary medicine, the cattle plague and contagion, 1865-90; 3. Germs in the air: surgeons, hospitalism and sepsis, c.1865-76; 4. 'Something definite to guide you in your sanitary precautions': sanitary science, poisons and contagium viva, 1866-80; 5. 'Deeper than the surface of the wound': surgeons antisepsis and asepsis, 1876-1900; 6. From heredity to infection: tuberculosis, bacteriology and medicine, 1870-1900; 7. Preventive medicine and the 'bacteriological era'; Conclusion; Select bibliography; Index.

Zusammenfassung

Spreading Germs discusses how modern ideas on the bacterial causes of communicable diseases were constructed and spread within the British medical profession in the last third of the nineteenth century. Michael Worboys surveys many existing interpretations of this pivotal moment in modern medicine.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Michael Worboys
• Mitarbeit: Colin Jones (Herausgeber), Charles Rosenberg (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Cambridge Academic
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 16.10.2000
• EAN: 9780521773027
• ISBN: 978-0-521-77302-7
• Abmessung: 163 mm x 235 mm x 25 mm
• Gewicht: 600 g
• Illustration: 16 b/w illus. 3 tables, Raster, nicht spezifiziert, Tabellen, nicht spezifiziert
• Serien: Cambridge Studies in the Histo; Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte; Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Medizin > Allgemeines; MEDICAL / History, History of Medicine