Spreading Germs: Disease Theories and Medical Practice in Britain, 1865-1900 (Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Spreading Germs: Disease Theories and Medical Practice in Britain, 1865-1900 (Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine) Book

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.Read More

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  • 0521034477
  • 9780521034470
  • Michael Worboys
  • 14 December 2006
  • Cambridge University Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 348
  • New Ed
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