Spreading germs : disease theories and medical practice in Britain, 1865-1900 / Michael Worboys.
| Author/creator |
Worboys, Michael, 1948- |
| Format | Book and Print |
| Publication Info | Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000. |
| Description | xvi, 327 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Table of contents |
| Supplemental Content | Publisher description |
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| Series | Cambridge history of medicine Cambridge history of medicine. ^A14537 |
| Contents | 1. Medical Practice and Disease Theories, c. 1865 -- 2. Veterinary Medicine, the Cattle Plague and Contagion, 1865-1890 -- 3. Germs in the Air: Surgeons, Hospitalism and Sepsis, 1865-1876 -- 4. Something Definite to Guide You in Your Sanitary Precautions: Sanitary Science, Poisons and Contagium Viva, 1866-1880 -- 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'. |
| Review | "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 revises many existing interpretations of this pivotal moment in modern medicine."--BOOK JACKET. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-315) and index. |
| LCCN | 00023501 |
| ISBN | 9780521773027 |
| ISBN | 0521773024 |
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