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From Hippocrates to Lillian Wald—the stories of scientists whose work changed the way we think about and treat infection.

 

• Describes the genesis of the germ theory of disease by a dozen seminal thinkers such as Jenner, Lister, and Ehrlich.

 

• Presents the “inside stories” of these pioneers’ struggles to have their work accepted, which can inform strategies for tackling current crises in infectious diseases and motivate and support today’s scientists.

 

• Relevant to anyone interested in microbiology, infectious disease, or how medical discoveries shape our modern understanding

Table of Contents

 

About the Author

 

Chapter 1 Introduction

 

Chapter 2 Hippocrates, the Father of Modern Medicine

 

Chapter 3 Avicenna, a Thousand Years Ahead of His Time

 

Chapter 4 Girolamo Fracastoro and Contagion in Renaissance Medicine

 

Chapter 5 Antony van Leeuwenhoek and the Birth of Microscopy

 

Chapter 6 The Demise of the Humoral Theory of Medicine

 

Chapter 7 Edward Jenner and the Discovery of Vaccination

 

Chapter 8 Ignaz Semmelweis and the Control of Puerperal Sepsis

 

Chapter 9 Louis Pasteur and the Germ Theory of Medicine

 

Chapter 10 Robert Koch and the Rise of Bacteriology

 

Chapter 11 Joseph Lister, the Man Who Made Surgery Safe

 

Chapter 12 Paul Ehrlich and the Magic Bullet

 

Chapter 13 Alexander Fleming and the Discovery of Penicillin

 

Chapter 14 Lillian Wald and the Foundations of Modern Public Health

 

Chapter 15 Conclusions

 

Index