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Pneumonia before antibiotics : therapeutic evolution and evaluation in twentieth-century America
- Title
- Pneumonia before antibiotics : therapeutic evolution and evaluation in twentieth-century America / Scott H. Podolsky.
- Author
- Podolsky, Scott H.
- Publication
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.
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- Description
- x, 254 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- "In Pneumonia Before Antibiotics, clinician-historian Scott H. Podolsky uses pneumonia's enduring prevalence and its centrality to the medical profession's therapeutic self-identity to examine the evolution of therapeutics in twentieth-century America." "Focusing largely on the treatment of pneumonia in the first half of the century with type-specific serotherapy, Podolsky provides insight into the rise and clinical evaluation of therapeutic "specifics," the contested domains of private practice and public health, and - as the treatment of pneumonia made the transition from serotherapy to chemotherapy and antibiotics - the tempo and mode of therapeutic change itself."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subjects
- Immunization, Passive > history
- United States
- Pneumonia, Pneumococcal > United States > History > 20th century
- Pneumonia, Pneumococcal > Chemotherapy > United States > History > 20th century
- Pneumonia, Pneumococcal > Treatment > United States > History > 20th century
- Serotherapy > United States > History > 20th century
- Pneumonia, Pneumococcal > therapy
- Drug Therapy > history
- History, 20th Century
- Pneumonia, Pneumococcal > history
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [151]-246) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction : patterns of resistance -- Pt. I. Serotherapy and the rise of the specific, 1891-1930 -- 1. The advent of type-specific antipneumococcal serotherapy -- 2. A "specific" specific and the turbid age of applied immunology -- 3. Fundamental tensions : clinical "proof" and clinical resistance -- Pt. II. The transformation of pneumonia into a public health concern, 1930-1939 -- 4. The Massachusetts experiment and New (York) tensions -- 5. The new standard, the new deal, and the pneumonia control programs -- Pt. III. Resolution : the antimicrobial "revolution" and the decline of serotherapy, 1939-present -- 6. Histology of a revolution -- 7. A "modern" revolution : the limits and uses of controlled clinical trials -- 8. The dismantling of pneumonia as a public health concern -- Conclusion : overcoming resistance.
- ISBN
- 080188327X (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2005034430
- OCLC
- ocm62381375
- SCSB-5297569
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries