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

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

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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. He shows that there were many germ theories of disease, and that these were developed and used in different ways across veterinary medicine, surgery, public health and general medicine. The growth of bacteriology is considered in relation to the evolution of medical practice rather than as a separate science of germs.
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Cambridge University Press
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9780521773027
9780521773027

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Publication date
2000
Issue number
1
Cover
hard cover
Pages count
346
Dimensions (mm)
163.00 x 235.00
Weight (g)
600
  • 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.
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