Laboratory Disease: Robert Koch's Medical Bacteriology

by Christoph Gradmann

In the nineteenth century, the new field of medical bacteriology identified microorganisms and explained how they spread disease. This book interweaves the history of this discipline and the biography of one of its founders, Nobel Prize-winning German physician Robert Koch (1843-1910).

Koch contributed to modern medicine by inventing or improving fundamental techniques such as bacterial staining, solid culture media, mass pure cultures,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801893135
• ISBN13: 9780801893131
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"