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

ISBN: 0521034477

ISBN13: 9780521034470

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

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Spreading Germs discusses how modern ideas on the bacterial causes of communicable diseases were constructed and spread within the British medical profession in the last third of the nineteenth century. Michael Worboys surveys many existing interpretations of this pivotal moment in modern medicine. He shows that there were many germ theories of disease, and that these were developed and used in different ways across veterinary medicine, surgery, public...

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