Spreading Germs
Spreading Germs
Disease Theories and Medical Practice in Britain, 1865–1900
Author:
Michael Worboys, Sheffield Hallam University
Published:
December 2006
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9780521034470
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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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December 2006Paperback
9780521034470
348 pages
228 × 152 × 20 mm
0.527kg
16 b/w illus. 3 tables
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Table of Contents
- 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.
