Robert Koch

by Brock, Thomas D.

• ISBN13: 9781555811433
• ISBN10: 1555811434
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-01-01
• Publisher: Amer Society for Microbiology

Summary

Reprint of the original text published by Springer-Verlag, c1988. Covers the life of one of the most important figures in medical science and the founder of bacteriology. Includes a new forward. For the general reader.

Table of Contents

Foreword	vii
James Strick
Preface	xxi
Introduction	1	(5)
Koch's Early Years	6	(8)
The Young Doctor and Husband	14	(7)
Steps toward Maturity: Koch in Wollstein	21	(6)
The Lone Scientist: The Work on Anthrax	27	(11)
First Recognition: Koch and Cohn	38	(16)
Koch's Role in the Microscope Revolution	54	(16)
Studies on Wound Infections: The Later Wollstein Years	70	(14)
On to Berlin	84	(6)
Koch at the Crossroads: From Lone Doctor to Group Leader	90	(4)
Simple Gifts: The Plate Technique	94	(11)
Sterilization, Disinfection, and other Techniques	105	(9)
The London Meeting: Koch, Lister, and Pasteur	114	(3)
World Fame: The Discovery of the Tubercle Bacillus	117	(23)
The World Traveler: To Egypt and India in Search of Cholera	140	(29)
The Pasteur/Koch Controversy	169	(9)
The Berlin Professor	178	(17)
At the Center of a Storm: Koch's Work on Tuberculin	195	(19)
Consolidation and Transition	214	(23)
Africa Years: Robert Koch's Research in Tropical Medicine	237	(30)
The World Tour: Koch in America and Japan	267	(19)
An Assessment of Koch and His Work	286	(17)
Chronology	303	(6)
Bibliography of Koch's Writings	309	(10)
Notes	319	(30)
Index	349