Cholera, chloroform, and the science of medicine: a life of John Snow
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TextPublication details: Oxford Oxford University Press 2003Description: 437pISBN: - 0-19-513544-X
- WC 262 .I64 2003
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Interprets the work of John Snow in anesthesiology, epidemiology, medical cartography, and public health. The book argues that medicine as a science requires the incorporation of other scientific fields in explaining the causes of diseases. It provides background information on how Snow started, explaining how his theoretical breakthroughs in anesthesia were extensions of experimental research in respiratory physiology and properties of inhaled gases. These are said to have been the beginning of developments in the treatment of cholera. The book discusses the various theories, controversies and confusion that sorrounded cholera and the eventual treatment outcomes.
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