Germs and Governance

Professor Dame Anne Marie Rafferty CBE is Professor of Nursing Policy at King’s College London and President of the Royal College of Nursing Marguerite Dupree is Professor Emeritus of Social and Medical History at the University of Glasgow and Emeritus Fellow of Wolfson College at the University of Cambridge Fay Bound Alberti is Professor of Modern History and Director of the Centre for Technology and the Body at King’s College London -- .

Foreword – Professor Dame Sally Davies
Introduction – Marguerite Dupree, Anne Marie Rafferty and Fay Bound Alberti

Part I: Policy and infection control
1 Hospital infections and the role of the community before MRSA, 1930–1960 – Flurin Condrau
2 Cleanliness costs: the evolving relationship between infection and length of stay in antibiotic-era hospitals – Sally Sheard

Part II: Infection control: Nurses and medical students
3 Pus, pedagogy and practice: how ‘dirt’ shaped surgical nurse training and hierarchies of practice, 1900–1935 – Pamela Wood
4 Septic subjects: infection control and occupational illness in British hospitals, c. 1870–1970 – Claire L. Jones
5 Learning the art and science of infection prevention and control: a practical application – Susan Macqueen

Part III: Practice and infection control: Focus on gloves
6 Wax paste and vaccination: alternatives to surgical gloves for infection control, 1880–1945 – Thomas Schlich
7 The evolving role of gloves in healthcare – Jennie Wilson

Part IV: Practice and infection control: In the laboratory
8 Constructing the ‘Sanitary Officer’: the Pathologist’s role in infection prevention and control at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London, 1892–1939 – Rosemary Cresswell
9 Infection control from the laboratory to the clinic: John H. Bowie and the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, c.1945–1970 – Susan Gardiner

Part V: Into the future
10 Infection prevention and control in the twenty-first century: the era of patient safety – Neil Wigglesworth
11 Infection control and antimicrobial resistance: the past, the present and the future – Alistair Leanord

Conclusion: using the past – Marguerite Dupree, Anne Marie Rafferty and Fay Bound Alberti
Index -- .