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Pneumonia Before Antibiotics: Therapeutic Evolution and Evaluation in Twentieth-Century America
Pneumonia Before Antibiotics Therapeutic Evolution and Evaluation in TwentiethCentury America
Author: Scott H. Podolsky
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 s...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780801883279
ISBN-10: 080188327X
Publication Date: 3/23/2006
Pages: 248
Edition: 1
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Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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