| Description |
xiii, 274 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
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regular print |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Foreword by Bill Newsom -- Preface -- 1. Theories of infection: magic to miasmas -- 2. Middle Ages to seventeenth century: hospitals and infection -- 3. The eighteenth century: hospitals and infection -- 4. The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: typhus in military and civilian hospitals -- 5. The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: lying-in hospitals and puerperal infection -- 6. The nineteenth century before Lister: military hospitals and wound infection, civilian hospitals and 'hospitalism' -- 7. Theories of infection: miasmas to microbes -- 8. Antisepsis to asepsis -- 9. The twentieth century: hospital design and miscellaneous infections -- 10. The twentieth century: emergence of antimicrobial chemotherapy and the demise of the haemolytic streptococcus -- 11. Sterilization, the development of sterile services and disinfections -- 12. The mid-twentieth century: the emergence of antibiotic-resistant Staphylococcus Aureus -- 13. The mid-twentieth century: gram-negative infections -- 14. The control of staphylococcal and gram-negative infections -- 15. Surveillance of infections and organisation of infection control -- 16. New and re-emerging infections -- 17. The past, present and future -- Index |
| Summary |
A history of the intimate and ongoing relationship between hospitals and infections |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 236-266) and index |
| Subject |
Medical bacteriology.
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Infection.
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Communicable diseases.
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Nosocomial infections -- History.
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Cross Infection -- history.
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Infection Control -- history.
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Cross Infection -- history.
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Cross Infection.
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History, Modern 1601-
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History.
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Infection Control.
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History, Modern 1601-
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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Historical Works
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Portraits
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| Author |
English, Mary P.
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| LC no. |
2002031079 |
| ISBN |
0521531780 |
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0521819350 hardback |
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