Focusing on the years between the identification of bacteria and the production of antibiotic medicine, Wall presents a study into how bacteriology has affected

A scholarly history of food poisoning, telling of its discovery of food poisoning as a public health problem in the 1880s, of the discovery of pathways of infec

Germs and governance brings together leading historians, practitioners and policy makers to consider the past, present and future of hospital infection control.

This book looks at how the workplace was transformed through a greater awareness of the roles that germs played in English working lives from c.1880 to 1945. Cu

The contributors to this collection look into the experiences of women in the Western world going through pregnancy and birth over the last hundred years.