Pneumonia before antibiotics : therapeutic evolution and evaluation in twentieth-century America

Pneumonia before antibiotics : therapeutic evolution and evaluation in twentieth-century America / Scott H. Podolsky.

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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Podolsky, Scott H.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
1900 - 1999
Pneumonia, Pneumococcal > United States > History > 20th century.
Pneumonia, Pneumococcal > Treatment > United States > History > 20th century.
Pneumonia, Pneumococcal > Chemotherapy > United States > History > 20th century.
Serotherapy > United States > History > 20th century.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > Respiratory.
Pneumonia, Pneumococcal
Serotherapy
United States
Electronic books.
History
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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.

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