Negotiating hospital infections: the debate between ecological balance and eradication strategies in British hospitals, 1947-1969 [0.03%]
英国医院1947至1969年的感染谈判:生态平衡与根除策略之间的辩论
Flurin Condrau,Robert G W Kirk
Flurin Condrau
This paper reviews and contrasts two strategies of infection control that emerged in response to the growing use of antibiotics within British hospitals, c. 1946-1969. At this time, we argue, the hospital became an arena within which repres...
Ana Romero de Pablos
Ana Romero de Pablos
This paper tells the early history of penicillin patenting in Spain. Patents turn out to be useful instruments for analysing the management of knowledge and its circulation in different professional and geographical domains. They protected ...
"A Chain is gonna come". Building a penicillin production plant in post-war Italy [0.03%]
《“盘尼西林生产线即将建立”。战后意大利建设盘尼西林生产工厂》
Mauro Capocci
Mauro Capocci
In 1947, Ernst Chain moved from Oxford to Rome, hired as head of a new biochemistry department and of a penicillin production pilot plant in the Istituto Superiore di Sanità (Higher Health Institute). Here, he managed to make Rome one of t...
Innovators, deep fermentation and antibiotics: promoting applied science before and after the Second World War [0.03%]
创新者、深层发酵与抗生素:二战前后推动应用科学的发展
Robert Bud
Robert Bud
The historiography of penicillin has tended to overlook the importance of developing and disseminating know-how in fermentation technology. A focus on this directs attention to work before the war of a network in the US and Europe concerned...
Magic bullets and moving targets: antibiotic resistance and experimental chemotherapy, 1900-1940 [0.03%]
魔法子弹与移动靶标:20世纪上半叶的抗生素耐药性及实验化疗研究(1900-1940)
Christoph Gradmann
Christoph Gradmann
It was in the 1940s that antibiotic resistance arose as an object of study for clinical medicine. Somewhat earlier it had become an important analytical tool for bacterial geneticists. However, the concept of antibiotic resistance as an ind...
Maria Jesús Santesmases,Christoph Gradmann
Maria Jesús Santesmases
[Draft general ordinances for physicians, surgeons and apothecaries of Castile (1491-1513)] [0.03%]
[卡斯蒂利亚医师、外科医生和药剂师条例草案(1491-1513年)]
José Damián González Arce
José Damián González Arce
Between around 1491 and 1513, three draft general ordinances were drawn up to regulate Castilian medical practitioners (physicians, surgeons and apothecaries). None were finally enacted because of disagreement among those responsible for th...
The Cinchona Program (1940-1945): science and imperialism in the exploitation of a medicinal plant [0.03%]
奎宁植物的开发与利用(1940—1945)——科学与帝国主义
Nicolás Cuvi
Nicolás Cuvi
During World War II, the United States implemented programs to exploit hundreds of raw materials in Latin America, many of them botanical. This required the participation of the country's scientific community and marked the beginning of int...
[The Medical-Pharmaceutical Department of the Junta for aid to Spanish Republicans, Mexico delegation] [0.03%]
[国民党援助西班牙共和政府联合医疗药剂部墨西哥代表处]
Fernando Girón,Enriqueta Barranco
Fernando Girón
Between 1940 and 1942, the Mexican delegation of the Junta for Aid to Spanish republicans founded and supported its own Medical-Pharmaceutical Department in Mexico City, formed by recently exiled Spanish professionals. It initially dealt wi...
Sonia García Galán
Sonia García Galán
The first few decades of the 20th century represent a period of transition in attitudes to maternity and childcare. Attempts are made for mothers to interiorize new approaches established by the medical collective, still giving considerable...