Spreading Germs : Disease Theories and Medical Practice in Britain, 1865-1900 Paperback / softback
by Michael (Sheffield Hallam University) Worboys
Part of the Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine series
Paperback / softback
Description
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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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:348 pages, 3 Tables, unspecified; 16 Halftones, unspecified
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:14/12/2006
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- ISBN:9780521034470
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:348 pages, 3 Tables, unspecified; 16 Halftones, unspecified
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:14/12/2006
- Category:
- ISBN:9780521034470
