Hospital Infection: From Miasmas to MRSACambridge University Press, 05.06.2003 - 274 Seiten 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 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. |
Inhalt
Theories of infection from magic to miasmas | 1 |
The Middle Ages to the seventeenth century hospitals and infection | 10 |
The eighteenth century hospitals and infection | 24 |
The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries typhus in military and civilian hospitals | 37 |
The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries lyingin hospitals and puerperal fever | 52 |
The nineteenth century before Lister military hospitals and wound infection civilian hospitals and hospitalism | 68 |
Theories of infection from miasmas to microbes | 87 |
Antisepsis to asepsis | 104 |
The midtwentieth century the emergence of antibioticresistant Staphylococcus aureus | 151 |
The midtwentieth century Cramnegative bacilli | 161 |
The control of staphylococcal and Cramnegative infections | 169 |
The surveillance of infection and the organization of infection control | 184 |
Emerging diseases at the end of the twentieth century | 198 |
The past present and future | 217 |
References | 234 |
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The twentieth century hospitals and miscellaneous infections | 118 |
The twentieth century the emergence of antimicrobial chemotherapy and the demise of the haemolytic streptococcus | 134 |
The twentieth century sterilization sterile services and disinfection | 141 |
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Hospital Infection: From Miasmas to MRSA Graham A. J. Ayliffe,Mary P. English Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2003 |
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