Hospital infection : from Miasmas to MRSA / Graham A.J. Ayliffe and Mary P. English.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ayliffe, G. A. J.

Contributor:

English, Mary P.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nosocomial infections--History.

Nosocomial infections.

History.

Physical Description:

xiii, 274 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Contents:

1 Theories of infection: from magic to miasmas 1

2 The Middle Ages to the seventeenth century: hospitals and infection 10

3 The eighteenth century: hospitals and infection 24

4 The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: typhus in military and civilian hospitals 37

5 The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: lying-in hospitals and puerperal fever 52

6 The nineteenth century before Lister: military hospitals and wound infection, civilian hospitals and 'hospitalism' 68

7 Theories of infection: from miasmas to microbes 87

8 Antisepsis to asepsis 104

9 The twentieth century: hospitals and miscellaneous infections 118

10 The twentieth century: the emergence of antimicrobial chemotherapy and the demise of the haemolytic streptococcus 134

11 The twentieth century: sterilization, sterile services and disinfection 141

12 The mid-twentieth century: the emergence of antibiotic-resistant Staphylococcus aureus 153

13 The mid-twentieth century: Gram-negative bacilli 163

14 The control of staphylococcal and Gram-negative infections 171

15 The surveillance of infection and the organization of infection control 186

16 Emerging diseases at the end of the twentieth century 200

17 The past, present and future 219.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-266) and index.

ISBN:

0521819350

0521531780

OCLC:

50280157

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