Pneumonia Before Antibiotics: Therapeutic Evolution and Evaluation in Twentieth-Century America
Intro -- Contents -- 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 III: 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 -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.