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Infection control from the laboratory to the clinic: John H. Bowie and the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, c.1945-1970 (2021)

Gardiner, Susan (Author)

Manchester University Press
Publication date: 2021
Language: English

ISBN: 9781526140784

DOI: https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526140791.00022

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Hygiene Infectious diseases Hospitals and clinics 20th century Great Britain Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh

Since the early 2000s, medical historians have shown a growing interest in the role of the bacteriologist in the twentieth-century hospital. Collectively, scholars suggest that in the 1950s, bacteriologists emerged as authorities on hospital infection and its control. Focusing on the years between approximately 1945 and 1970, this chapter provides a more in-depth exploration of the day-to-day work of bacteriologists in the mid-twentieth-century hospital than has hitherto existed, further unpacking their role in the control of infection. In so doing, it focuses on one particular hospital – the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh (RIE) – where hospital staff participated in many important developments in infection control and where aspects of infection control practice soon became exemplary. Such an exploration is important in gaining a fuller understanding of why bacteriologists came to be viewed as authorities in the area of hospital infection and control. (Publisher)

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