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Spreading Germs: Disease Theories and Medical Practice in Britain, 1865 1900

Spreading Germs: Disease Theories and Medical Practice in Britain, 1865 1900

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Series: Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine

Medical ReferenceBritish History

ISBN10: 0521034477
ISBN13: 9780521034470
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Dec 14 2006
Pages: 348
Weight: 1.12
Height: 0.78 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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.

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