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Laboratory Disease
Christoph Gradmann
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Description for Laboratory Disease
A fascinating look into Koch's personality and his experimental work in medical bacteriology, Laboratory Disease reveals both the biographical and the historical roots of our modern understanding of infectious diseases. Translator(s): Forster, Elborg. Num Pages: 328 pages, 17, 16 black & white halftones, 1 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: MJCJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 162 x 24. Weight in Grams: 572.
In the nineteenth century, the new field of medical bacteriology identified microorganisms and explained how they spread disease. This book interweaves the history of this discipline and the biography of one of its founders, Nobel Prize-winning German physician Robert Koch (1843-1910). Koch contributed to modern medicine by inventing or improving fundamental techniques such as bacterial staining, solid culture media, mass pure cultures, and the use of animal models. His discoveries, which dominated medical science at the turn of the last century, are epitomized in a set of rules named after him. "Koch's Postulates" are still invoked today in attempts to ... Read more
In the nineteenth century, the new field of medical bacteriology identified microorganisms and explained how they spread disease. This book interweaves the history of this discipline and the biography of one of its founders, Nobel Prize-winning German physician Robert Koch (1843-1910). Koch contributed to modern medicine by inventing or improving fundamental techniques such as bacterial staining, solid culture media, mass pure cultures, and the use of animal models. His discoveries, which dominated medical science at the turn of the last century, are epitomized in a set of rules named after him. "Koch's Postulates" are still invoked today in attempts to ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
Number of Pages
328
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9780801893131
SKU
V9780801893131
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About Christoph Gradmann
Christoph Gradmann is a professor of the history of medicine at the University of Oslo.
Reviews for Laboratory Disease
An important resource for researchers on Koch and the German medicine of his times. Choice 2010 For those interested in visualization; in laboratory practices and their epistemological implications; and in the history of bacteriology, microbiology, medicine and biology in general, this is an important book.
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