Fungal Disease in Britain and the United States 1850-2000: Mycoses and Modernity

by Aya Homei, Michael F. Worboys, M. Worboys

Book Overview

This book is open access under a CC BY license. The grand narrative of twentieth-century medicine is the conquering of acute infectious diseases and the rise in chronic, degenerative diseases. The history of fungal infections does not fit this picture; indeed, it runs against it - this book charts the path of fungal infections from the mid nineteenth century to the dawn of the twenty-first century, both in Britain and the United States. It examines...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137377011
• ISBN13: 9781137377012
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 225 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"