Pneumonia before antibiotics : therapeutic evolution and evaluation in twentieth-century America

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Pneumonia before antibiotics : therapeutic evolution and evaluation in twentieth-century America

Scott H. Podolsky

Johns Hopkins University Press, c2006

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [151]-246) and index

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内容説明

Pneumonia-Osler's "Captain of the Men of Death" and still the leading infectious cause of death in the United States-has until now received scant attention from historians. 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 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. Type-specific serotherapy, founded on the tenets of applied immunology, justified by controlled clinical trials, and grounded in a novel public ethos, was deemed revolutionary when it emerged to replace supportive therapeutics. With the advent of the even more revolutionary sulfa drugs and antibiotics, pneumonia ceased to be a public health concern and became instead an illness treated in individual patients by individual physicians. Podolsky describes the new therapeutics and the scientists and practitioners who developed and debated them. He finds that, rather than representing a barren era in anticipation of some unknown transformation to come, the first decades of the twentieth-century shaped the use of, and reliance upon, the therapeutic specific throughout the century and beyond. This intriguing study will interest historians of medicine and science, policymakers, and clinicians alike.

目次

Acknowledgments Introduction: Patterns of Resistance Part 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 Part 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 Part II: 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 Notes Index

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