Pneumonia before antibiotics : therapeutic evolution and evaluation in twentieth-century America /
Pneumonia - Osler's "Captain of the Men of Death" and still the leading infectious cause of death in the United States - has until now received scant attention from historians. In Pneumonia Before Antibiotics, clinician-historian Scott H. Podolsky uses pneumonia's enduring preval...
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| Language: | English |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2006.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=215906 |
Table of Contents:
- The advent of type-specific antipneumococcal serotherapy
- A "specific" specific and the turbid age of applied immunology
- Fundamental tensions: clinical "proof" and clinical resistance
- The Massachusetts experiment and New (York) tensions
- The new standard, the new deal, and the pneumonia control programs
- Histology of a revolution
- A "modern" revolution: the limits and uses of controlled clinical trials
- The dismantling of pneumonia as a public health concern.