Description
Book SynopsisA 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.
Trade ReviewAn 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. -- James E. Strick British Journal for the History of Science 2011 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. -- James E. Strick The Journal of BJHS 2011
Table of Contents1. Introduction
2. Lower Fungi and Diseases: Infectious Diseases between Botany and Pathological Anatomy, 1840–1878
3. Tuberculosis and Tuberculin: History of a Research Program
4. Of Men and Mice: Medical Bacteriology and Experimental Therapy, 1890–1908
5. Traveling: Robert Koch's Research Expeditions as Private and Scientific Undertakings
A Perspective
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
