Anne Marie Rafferty - Germs and Governance: The Past, Present and Future of Hospital Infection, Prevention and Control

Germs and governance

Social Histories Of Medicine

Series editors: David Cantor, Elaine Leong and Keir Waddington

Social Histories of Medicine is concerned with all aspects of health, illness and medicine, from prehistory to the present, in every part of the world. The series covers the circumstances that promote health or illness, the ways in which people experience and explain such conditions, and what, practically, they do about them. Practitioners of all approaches to health and healing come within its scope, as do their ideas, beliefs, and practices, and the social, economic and cultural contexts in which they operate. Methodologically, the series welcomes relevant studies in social, economic, cultural, and intellectual history, as well as approaches derived from other disciplines in the arts, sciences, social sciences and humanities. The series is a collaboration between Manchester University Press and the Society for the Social History of Medicine.

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Germs and governance

The past, present and future of hospital infection, prevention and control

Edited by

Anne Marie Rafferty, Marguerite Dupreeand Fay Bound Alberti

MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS

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Cover image: Lee Miller, US Army nurse drying sterilised rubber gloves, 1945 (courtesy Lee Miller Archives)

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Contents

This book arose from a two-day symposium, From microbes to matrons: the past, present and future of hospital infection control and prevention, held at the Royal College of Surgeons of England and Kings College London. The symposium brought together thirty policymakers, health professionals and historians from the United Kingdom and abroad. The editors would like to thank all of the participants and all who presented papers; they are especially indebted to the enterprise and energy of Dr Claire L. Jones, who organised the symposium, and to Clare Hitchcox, who assisted her, and to the Wellcome Trust Small Grants Scheme and the Society for the Social History of Medicine for funding for the symposium.