Pneumonia before antibiotics
Subtitle: therapeutic evolution and evaluation in twentieth-century America
By: Scott H. Podolsky.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
Subjects: Pneumonia, Pneumococcal -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; Pneumonia, Pneumococcal -- Treatment -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; Pneumonia, Pneumococcal -- Chemotherapy -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; Serotherapy -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; Pneumonia, Pneumococcal -- history -- United States.; Drug Therapy -- history -- United States.; History, 20th Century -- United States.; Immunization, Passive -- history -- United States.; Pneumonia, Pneumococcal -- therapy -- United States.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The advent of type-specific antipneumococcal serotherapy; title: A "specific" specific and the turbid age of applied immunology; title: Fundamental tensions: clinical "proof" and clinical resistance; title: The Massachusetts experiment and New (York) tensions; title: The new standard, the new deal, and the pneumonia control programs; title: Histology of a revolution; title: A "modern" revolution: the limits and uses of controlled clinical trials; title: The dismantling of pneumonia as a public health concern.