{"product_id":"hospital-infection-from-miasmas-to-mrsa-paperback-9780521531788","title":"Hospital Infection: From Miasmas to MRSA (Paperback) 9780521531788","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eHospital Infection: From Miasmas to MRSA\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA history of the intimate and ongoing relationship between hospitals and infections.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eGraham A. J. Ayliffe (Author), Mary P. English (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521531788, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback, published 5 June 2003\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e292 pages, 29 b\/w illus.  1 table\u003cbr\u003e25.5 x 17.7 x 1.9 cm, 0.763 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'… the strength of the material that the authors have amassed make this a much more solid account of our journey to understand hospital-acquired infections and of the continuing battle to minimise their damaging effects on people's lives. This is valuable reading for anyone who wants to know more about the current state of things …'. Health Service Journal\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis is an absorbing account of the continuing battle to control hospital infections, from the earliest days of hospital care when bad air or miasma was thought to be the cause, to the present day and the emergence of antibiotic-resistant 'superbugs' such as MRSA and necrotizing fasciitis. It succeeds on many levels: as a fascinating social history of hospital care from mediaeval times, when patients endured verminous conditions, to the present day; as a survey of the rise, fall and emergence of new nosocomial infections; and as a chronological account of the emergence of medical microbiology and infection control. The pivotal roles of key personalities such as Joseph Lister, Florence Nightingale, Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch are highlighted, and the history of this subject illuminates not only why hospitals and infections have had such an intimate and long relationship but one that seems destined to continue well into the future.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eForeword by Bill Newsom\u003cbr\u003e Preface\u003cbr\u003e 1. Theories of infection: magic to miasmas\u003cbr\u003e 2. Middle Ages to seventeenth century: hospitals and infection\u003cbr\u003e 3. The eighteenth century: hospitals and infection\u003cbr\u003e 4. The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: typhus in military and civilian hospitals\u003cbr\u003e 5. The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: lying-in hospitals and puerperal infection\u003cbr\u003e 6. The nineteenth century before Lister: military hospitals and wound infection, civilian hospitals and 'hospitalism'\u003cbr\u003e 7. Theories of infection: miasmas to microbes\u003cbr\u003e 8. Antisepsis to asepsis\u003cbr\u003e 9. The twentieth century: hospital design and miscellaneous infections\u003cbr\u003e 10. The twentieth century: emergence of antimicrobial chemotherapy and the demise of the haemolytic streptococcus\u003cbr\u003e 11. Sterilization, the development of sterile services and disinfections\u003cbr\u003e 12. The mid-twentieth century: the emergence of antibiotic-resistant Staphylococcus Aureus\u003cbr\u003e 13. The mid-twentieth century: gram-negative infections\u003cbr\u003e 14. The control of staphylococcal and gram-negative infections\u003cbr\u003e 15. Surveillance of infections and organisation of infection control\u003cbr\u003e 16. New and re-emerging infections\u003cbr\u003e 17. The past, present and future\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: History of science [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on History of science\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22History%20of%20science%20%5BPDX%5D%22\"\u003ePDX\u003c\/a\u003e], Infectious \u0026amp; contagious diseases [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Infectious \u0026amp; contagious diseases\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Infectious%20\u0026amp;%20contagious%20diseases%20%5BMJCJ%5D%22\"\u003eMJCJ\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46004786331928,"sku":"9780521531788","price":71.65,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521531788i_b2d4a8df-cc16-492d-8942-15c1fd120b27.jpg?v=1691369063","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/hospital-infection-from-miasmas-to-mrsa-paperback-9780521531788","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}