Spreading Germs - Disease Theories and Medical Practice in Britain, 1865-1900 (Hardcover)

Spreading Germs discusses how modern ideas on the nature and causes of infectious diseases were constructed and spread within the British medical profession during the last third of the nineteenth century. Michael Worboys challenges many existing interpretations, arguing that at various times there were many germ theories that developed in different ways and did not always embrace science and the use of laboratories. It was the discipline of bacteriology that institutionalized the various new ideas and practices during the 1880s, and in a way that was more evolutionary than revolutionary.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine
Release date:	October 2000
First published:	2000
Authors:	Michael Worboys
Dimensions:	236 x 152 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	346
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-77302-7
Categories:	Books > Medicine > General issues > History of medicine
LSN:	0-521-77302-4
Barcode:	9780521773027

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