Germ theory [[electronic resource] ] : medical pioneers in infectious diseases / / Robert P. Gaynes

• Autore: Gaynes Robert P
• Pubblicazione: Washington, DC, : ASM Press, c2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (342 p.)
• Disciplina: 616.90410922
• Soggetto topico: Germ theory of disease - History; Medical scientists; Microbiologists
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; About the Author; Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Hippocrates, the Father of Modern Medicine; Chapter 3 Avicenna, a Thousand Years Ahead of His Time; Chapter 4 Girolamo Fracastoro and Contagion in Renaissance Medicine; Chapter 5 Antony van Leeuwenhoek and the Birth of Microscopy; Chapter 6 The Demise of the Humoral Theory of Medicine; Chapter 7 Edward Jenner and the Discovery of Vaccination; Chapter 8 Ignaz Semmelweis and the Control of Puerperal Sepsis; Chapter 9 Louis Pasteur and the Germ Theory of Disease ; Chapter 10 Robert Koch and the Rise of BacteriologyChapter 11 Joseph Lister, the Man Who Made Surgery Safe; Chapter 12 Paul Ehrlich and the Magic Bullet; Chapter 13 Alexander Fleming and the Discovery of Penicillin; Chapter 14 Lillian Wald and the Foundations of Modern Public Health; Chapter 15 Conclusions; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
• Sommario/riassunto: From Hippocrates to Lillian Wald-the stories of scientists whose work changed the way we think about and treat infection.
• Titolo autorizzato: Germ theory
• ISBN: 1-68367-349-2; 1-68367-110-4; 1-283-65647-7; 1-55581-722-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910830325003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II