Hospital Infection: From Miasmas to MRSA
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-0-521-53178-8 (ISBN)
Foreword by Bill Newsom; Preface; 1. Theories of infection: magic to miasmas; 2. Middle Ages to seventeenth century: hospitals and infection; 3. The eighteenth century: hospitals and infection; 4. The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: typhus in military and civilian hospitals; 5. The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: lying-in hospitals and puerperal infection; 6. The nineteenth century before Lister: military hospitals and wound infection, civilian hospitals and 'hospitalism'; 7. Theories of infection: miasmas to microbes; 8. Antisepsis to asepsis; 9. The twentieth century: hospital design and miscellaneous infections; 10. The twentieth century: emergence of antimicrobial chemotherapy and the demise of the haemolytic streptococcus; 11. Sterilization, the development of sterile services and disinfections; 12. The mid-twentieth century: the emergence of antibiotic-resistant Staphylococcus Aureus; 13. The mid-twentieth century: gram-negative infections; 14. The control of staphylococcal and gram-negative infections; 15. Surveillance of infections and organisation of infection control; 16. New and re-emerging infections; 17. The past, present and future; Index.
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 5.6.2003 |
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Zusatzinfo | 1 Tables, unspecified; 29 Halftones, unspecified |
Verlagsort | Cambridge |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 177 x 255 mm |
Gewicht | 763 g |
Themenwelt | Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Prävention / Gesundheitsförderung |
Naturwissenschaften | |
ISBN-10 | 0-521-53178-0 / 0521531780 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-521-53178-8 / 9780521531788 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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