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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主要作者: Podolsky, Scott H.
格式: Licensed eBooks
語言:英语
出版: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.
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書本目錄:
  • 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.