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About this book
Named as Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2012
From Hippocrates to Lillian Wald—the stories of scientists whose work changed the way we think about and treat infection.
- Describes the genesis of the germ theory of disease by a dozen seminal thinkers such as Jenner, Lister, and Ehrlich.
- Presents the "inside stories" of these pioneers' struggles to have their work accepted, which can inform strategies for tackling current crises in infectious diseases and motivate and support today's scientists.
- Relevant to anyone interested in microbiology, infectious disease, or how medical discoveries shape our modern understanding
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- PREFACE
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Hippocrates, the Father of Modern Medicine
- 3. Avicenna, a Thousand Years Ahead of His Time
- 4. Girolamo Fracastoro and Contagion in Renaissance Medicine
- 5. Antony van Leeuwenhoek and the Birth of Microscopy
- 6. The Demise of the Humoral Theory of Medicine
- 7. Edward Jenner and the Discovery of Vaccination
- 8. Ignaz Semmelweis and the Control of Puerperal Sepsis
- 9. Louis Pasteur and the Germ Theory of Disease
- 10. Robert Koch and the Rise of Bacteriology
- 11. Joseph Lister, the Man Who Made Surgery Safe
- 12. Paul Ehrlich and the Magic Bullet
- 13. Alexander Fleming and the Discovery of Penicillin
- 14. Lillian Wald and the Foundations of Modern Public Health
- 15. Conclusions
- INDEX
- EULA