Shows how the scientific knowledge about the role of microorganisms in disease made its way into American popular culture.

An in-depth look at microbes and diseases.

In a work that spans the twentieth century, Nancy Tomes questions the popular--and largely unexamined--idea that in order to get good health care, people must l

Covie's the baddest of the baddies. Trained by evil masterminds at The Germ Academy, he won't stop causing havoc until he's the World's Best Infection and nothi

Physician-historian Jeremy A. Greene examines the mechanisms by which drugs and chronic disease categories define one another within medical research, clinical