Spreading Germs
Disease Theories and Medical Practice in Britain, 1865–1900
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19937937 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Helen Sweet (Oxford Brookes University) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 194-195 |
| Publication date | 2003-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | REVIEW |
| Review of | Spreading germs: Disease theories and medical practice in Britain, 1865-1900 / cMichael Worboys, Michael Worboys, 2000 |
| Venue | Nursing History Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1062-8061 • E-ISSN: 1938-1913 |
| Publisher | The Pennsylvania State University Press (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1891/1062-8061.11.1.194 |
| OpenAlex | W2082605165 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
Illustrations Abbreviations Preface Introduction 1. Medical practice and disease theories, c.1865 2. Veterinary medicine, the cattle plague and contagion, 1865-90 3. Germs in the air: surgeons, hospitalism and sepsis, c.1865-76 4. 'Something definite to guide you in your sanitary precautions': sanitary science, poisons and contagium viva, 1866-80 5. 'Deeper than the surface of the wound': surgeons antisepsis and asepsis, 1876-1900 6. From heredity to infection: tuberculosis, bacteriology and medicine, 1870-1900 7. Preventive medicine and the 'bacteriological era' Conclusion Select bibliography Index
Asepsis · Bacteriology · Biology · Disease · Family medicine · Pathology · Veterinary medicine · Historical and modern epidemiology studies · History · History of Medicine and Tropical Health · History of Science and Medicine · Medicine · Surgery
O Aedes aegypti e os mosquitos na historiografia
Bacteriologia e medicina tropical britânicas
Public Health, Laboratory Experiment, and Asymptomatic Carriers in Japan, ca. 1920–1950
Figuring the ‘cynical scientist’ in British animal science
Vaccination, Fear and Historical Relevance
The Dangerous Sausage
Categorising and cohabiting
The visual representation of germs
Being Lister
Cholera Controversy
Historia De La Microbiología en América Latina Desde La Perspectiva De Los Estudios Sociales De La Ciencia Y La Tecnología
Achieving disbelief
Surgery and national identity in late nineteenth-century Vienna
A case study in explanatory power
Was there a Bacteriological Revolution in late nineteenth-century medicine
Imagining ‘reactivity’
Divide et Impera
It might not be a nuisance in a country cottage’
From Safety to Risk
Revisiting the Pouchet–Pasteur controversy over spontaneous generation
Like all that lives
The evolution of germs and the evolution of disease
Breadth and depth in research on health disparities
Long-term effects of access to health care
Minimismal Monsters in Our Blood and Brains
Disease metaphors in new epidemics
Diagnostic Prescriptions
Diagnostic Spaces
Public health history
Dirt, disgust and disease
Geografía médica, bacteriología y el caso las fiebres en Colombia en el siglo XIX
Percursos da vacina na Índia portuguesa - séculos XIX e XX
On the Verge of Death
How (not) to think about theory-change in epidemiology
Bacteriology during the expeditions of the heroic age of Antarctic exploration
Hygienic Nature
Presidential Address
From Rajayak s(h)ma (‘Disease of kings’) to ‘Blackman's Plague’
Protecting wood and killing germs
The Entangled History of Sadoka (Rinderpest) and Veterinary Science in Tanzania and the Wider World, 1891–1901
Limits of the Lab
Beasts, Murrains, and the British Raj
Debating Diseases in Nineteenth-Century Colombia
Truth, Trust, and Confidence in Surgery, 1890–1910
De Kruif's Boast
(Re-)Reading Medical Trade Catalogs
Negotiating Technologies in Surgery
"Unfit for Human Consumption"
Hong Kong Junk
When Ice Cream Was Poisonous
Restructuring Isolation
Malarial Birds
Pestis Minor
From Foetid Air to Filth
"Living versus Dead"
Health by design
Entries
The challenge of emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases
The Borderline of ‘Empire’
A Vital Mediation
A Dreadful Heritage
Louis Sambon and the Clash of Pellagra Etiologies in Italy and the United States, 1905–14
Learning from Mistakes
Causation and Cleanliness
Through a glass darkly
La producción de vacunas en el Instituto Bacteriológico del Departamento Nacional de Higiene
Blood Trials
From Ubombo to Mkhuzi
Human Extinction and the Pandemic Imaginary
La grippe existe-t-elle
| Highly cited | No |
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