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Spreading germs : disease theories and medical practice in Britain, 1865-1900

"Spreading Germs discusses how modern ideas on the bacterial causes of communicable diseases were constructed and spread within the British medical profession in the last third of the nineteenth century. Michael Worboys revises many existing interpretations of this pivotal moment in modern medicine."--BOOK JACKET

Print Book, English, 2000
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 2000