Foreword by Bill Newsom; Preface; 1. Theories of infection: magic to miasmas; 2. Middle Ages to seventeenth century: hospitals and infection; 3. The eighteenth century: hospitals and infection; 4. The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: typhus in military and civilian hospitals; 5. The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: lying-in hospitals and puerperal infection; 6. The nineteenth century before Lister: military hospitals and wound infection, civilian hospitals and 'hospitalism'; 7. Theories of infection: miasmas to microbes; 8. Antisepsis to asepsis; 9. The twentieth century: hospital design and miscellaneous infections; 10. The twentieth century: emergence of antimicrobial chemotherapy and the demise of the haemolytic streptococcus; 11. Sterilization, the development of sterile services and disinfections; 12. The mid-twentieth century: the emergence of antibiotic-resistant Staphylococcus Aureus; 13. The mid-twentieth century: gram-negative infections; 14. The control of staphylococcal and gram-negative infections; 15. Surveillance of infections and organisation of infection control; 16. New and re-emerging infections; 17. The past, present and future; Index.
A history of the intimate and ongoing relationship between hospitals and infections.
'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
'… a fascinating account of how the relation between hospitals and
infection has altered through the centuries …'. Lancet
'Despite a daunting remit, the authors accomplish their task with
panache, incorporating history and science in a book that manages
to stay fresh and readable where the nature of the subject matter
could have rendered it dry … full of fascinating snippets of
information … the book is a valuable history of an extremely
important subject, one that is often neglected in medical schools'.
British Medical Journal
'… the strength of the material that the authors have amassed make
this a much more solid account of our journey to understand
hospital-acquired infections and of the continuing battle to
minimise their damaging effects on people's lives. This is valuable
reading for anyone who wants to know more about the current state
of things …'. Health Service Journal
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