Spreading Germs
Download or Read eBook Spreading Germs PDF written by Michael Worboys and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-10-16 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
| Author | : Michael Worboys |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 358 |
| Release | : 2000-10-16 |
| ISBN-10 | : 0521773024 |
| ISBN-13 | : 9780521773027 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (24 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Spreading Germs by : Michael Worboys
Book excerpt: 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.
