Hospital Infection: From Miasmas to MRSA Ayliffe English Paperback 9780521531788

Description: Hospital Infection: From Miasmas to MRSA A history of the intimate and ongoing relationship between hospitals and infections. Graham A. J. Ayliffe (Author), Mary P. English (Author) 9780521531788, Cambridge University Press Paperback / softback, published 5 June 2003 292 pages 25.5 x 17.7 x 1.9 cm, 0.763 kg '… 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 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. 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. Subject Areas: History of science [PDX], Infectious & contagious diseases [MJCJ]

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