The continuing battle to control hospital infections has ranged from the earliest days of hospital care when bad air or miasma was thought to be the cause, to the present day emergence of antibiotic-resistant "superbugs" such as MRSA and necrotizing fasciitis. This social history of hospital care surveys the rise, fall and re-emergence of new nosocomial infections and documents the development of medical microbiology and infection control.
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"The authors write well and concisely...it is an excellent, enlightening book..." Jan V. Hirschmann MD, Respiratory Care
"...a thorough and comprehensive review of the historic relationship between hospitals and infections. ...an excellent addtion to the topic and one that should be recommended reading for anyone interested in the problem." Nursing History Review
"...an excellent, well-organized history of the subject as well as a thorough overview of current and future challenges. Highly recommended for academic and medical libraries." E-STREAMS
"This is valuable reading for anyone who wants to know more about the current state of things and how we got here..." Health Service Journal
"History and social policy discussions are skillfully combined." Canadian Nurse
"Graham Ayliffe and Mary English offer a fascinating account of how the relation between hospitals and infection has altered through the centuries..." Lancet
"...a thorough and comprehensive review of the historic relationship between hospitals and infections. ...an excellent addtion to the topic and one that should be recommended reading for anyone interested in the problem." Nursing History Review
"...an excellent, well-organized history of the subject as well as a thorough overview of current and future challenges. Highly recommended for academic and medical libraries." E-STREAMS
"This is valuable reading for anyone who wants to know more about the current state of things and how we got here..." Health Service Journal
"History and social policy discussions are skillfully combined." Canadian Nurse
"Graham Ayliffe and Mary English offer a fascinating account of how the relation between hospitals and infection has altered through the centuries..." Lancet
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This 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; 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.
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The management of patients with infectious diseases, the control of epidemics and the planning of hospitals have always been dependent on the contemporary theories of infection. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
bacterial air counts, heavy dispersers, aseptic treatment, carriage sites, staphylococcal outbreaks, hospital gangrene, poisonous particles, hand disinfection, hospital fever, fever wards, epidemic constitution, hospital epidemiologists, hospital infection, airborne spread, nasal carriers, puerperal fever, typhus patients, skin disinfection, wound infection rates, epidemic strains, hospital epidemiology, inanimate environment, airborne organisms, antiseptic treatment, miasma theory Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Middle Ages, Second World War, Wellcome Library, Florence Nightingale, Hospital Infection Research Laboratory, James Lind, Brendan Moore, John Pringle, Leeds General Infirmary, Great Britain, Allgemeines Krankenhaus, Black Death, Edward Lowbury, Newcastle Infirmary, Public Health Laboratory Service, Graham Ayliffe, Hong Kong, House of Recovery, New York, South Africa, University College Hospital, Von Bergman, World Health Organization, Alexander Ogston, Dudley Road Hospital New!
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The management of patients with infectious diseases, the control of epidemics and the planning of hospitals have always been dependent on the contemporary theories of infection. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
bacterial air counts, heavy dispersers, aseptic treatment, carriage sites, staphylococcal outbreaks, hospital gangrene, poisonous particles, hand disinfection, hospital fever, fever wards, epidemic constitution, hospital epidemiologists, hospital infection, airborne spread, nasal carriers, puerperal fever, typhus patients, skin disinfection, wound infection rates, epidemic strains, hospital epidemiology, inanimate environment, airborne organisms, antiseptic treatment, miasma theory Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Middle Ages, Second World War, Wellcome Library, Florence Nightingale, Hospital Infection Research Laboratory, James Lind, Brendan Moore, John Pringle, Leeds General Infirmary, Great Britain, Allgemeines Krankenhaus, Black Death, Edward Lowbury, Newcastle Infirmary, Public Health Laboratory Service, Graham Ayliffe, Hong Kong, House of Recovery, New York, South Africa, University College Hospital, Von Bergman, World Health Organization, Alexander Ogston, Dudley Road Hospital New!
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- Hospital Epidemiology and Infection Control (Hospital Epidemiology & Infection Control (Mayhall)) by C. Glen Mayhall on 6 pages
- Principles and Practice of Disinfection, Preservation and Sterilization by A. D. Russell BPharm DSc PhD FRPharmS FRCPath on 5 pages
- Hospital Infections by John V. Bennett on 5 pages
- Principles and Practice of Disinfection, Preservation and Sterilization by A. D. Russell on 5 pages
- Introduction to the History of Medicine by F Garrison on 4 pages
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