Professor Dame Anne Marie Rafferty CBE is Professor of Nursing Policy at King's College London and President of the Royal College of Nursing Marguerite Dupree is Professor Emeritus of Social and Medical History at the University of Glasgow and Emeritus Fellow of Wolfson College at the University of Cambridge Fay Bound Alberti is Professor of Modern History and Director of the Centre for Technology and the Body at King's College London
'Germs and governance brings together a diverse array of scholars to give the topic its due attention, presented here as a series of eleven articles, framed by an introduction and incisive conclusion... Ultimately, it is this call for - and demonstration of - such cross-disciplinary approaches to an enduring hospital and societal concern that makes this a particularly useful volume for historians, clinicians, and policymakers alike.' Scott H. Podolsky, Social History of Medicine -- .