TY - BOOK AU - Homei,Aya AU - Worboys,Michael ED - SpringerLink (Online service) TI - Fungal Disease in Britain and the United States 1850–2000: Mycoses and Modernity T2 - Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History SN - 9781137377029 AV - DA1-DA995 U1 - 941 23 PY - 2013/// CY - London PB - Palgrave Macmillan UK, Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan KW - History KW - Great Britain KW - America KW - United States KW - Civilization KW - Social history KW - History of Britain and Ireland KW - History of Science KW - Cultural History KW - History of the Americas KW - Social History KW - US History N1 - Open Access N2 - This book is open access under a CC BY license. The narrative of 20th-century medicine is the conquering of acute infectious diseases and the rise in chronic, degenerative diseases. The history of fungal infections does not fit this picture. This book charts the path of fungal infections from the mid 19th century to the dawn of the 21st century UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137377029 ER -