Article ID: CBB001250961

Asepsis and Bacteriology: A Realignment of Surgery and Laboratory Science (2012)

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This paper examines the origins of aseptic surgery in the German-speaking countries. It interprets asepsis as the outcome of a mutual realignment of surgery and laboratory science. In that process, phenomena of surgical reality were being modelled and simplified in the bacteriological laboratory so that they could be subjected to control by the researcher's hands and eyes. Once control was achieved, it was being extended to surgical practice by recreating the relevant features of the controlled laboratory environment in the surgical work place. This strategy can be seen in the adoption of Robert Koch's bacteriology by German-speaking surgeons, and the resulting technical changes of surgery, leading to a set of beliefs and practices, which eventually came to be called `asepsis'.

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Authors & Contributors
Gradmann, Christoph
Armocida, Emanuele
L. M. Irvine
Zanon, Alessia
Arrighi, Leonardo
Schütz, Mathias
Concepts
Bacteriology
Medicine
Surgical techniques
Surgery
Disease and diseases
Microbiology
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
20th century, early
18th century
Places
Germany
Italy
Great Britain
United Kingdom
Warsaw (Poland)
Prussia (Germany)
Institutions
Johns Hopkins University
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Royal College of Surgeons, London
Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Md.)
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