Robert Koch : a life in medicine and bacteriology
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Robert Koch : a life in medicine and bacteriology
ASM Press, c1999
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Originally published: Madison, Wis. : Science Tech Publishers, c1988. With new foreword
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Robert Koch's story is a stirring example of how a lone country doctor can rise above all odds to become a true scientific revolutionary. Winner of the Nobel Prize in 1905, Koch is best known today for his discoveries of the causal agents of tuberculosis, cholera, and anthrax. His vital contributions to microbiological methodology also make him the founder of the field of bacteriology and central to the establishment of the disciplines of hygiene and public health. He was also a world traveler and made numerous important research expeditions to India (where he discovered the cause of cholera), Africa, and New Guinea. Koch's postulates, a series of guidelines for the experimental study of infectious disease, permitted Koch and his students to identify many of the causes of the most important infectious diseases of humans and animals. Even today Koch's postulates are considered whenever a new infectious disease arises.
This title is published by the American Society of Microbiology Press and distributed by Taylor and Francis in rest of world territories.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Koch's Early Years
- The Young Doctor and Husband
- Steps Toward Maturity: Koch in Wollstein
- The Lone Scientist: The Work on Anthrax
- First Recognition: Koch and Cohn
- Koch's Role in the Microscope Revolution
- Studies on Wound Infections: The Later Wollstein Years
- On to Berlin
- Koch at the Crossroads: From Lone Doctor to Group Leader
- Simple Gifts: The Plate Technique
- Sterilization, Disinfection, and other Techniques
- The London Meeting: Koch, Lister and Pasteur
- World Fame: The Discovery of the Tubercle Bacillus
- The World Traveler: To Egypt and India in Search of Cholera
- The Pasteur/Koch Controversy
- The Berlin Professor
- At the Center of a Storm: Koch's Work on Tuberculin
- Consolidation and Transition
- Africa Years: Robert Koch's Research in Tropical Medicine
- The World Tour: Koch in America and Japan
- An Assessment of Koch and His Work
- Chronology
- Bibliography of Koch's Writings
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