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oapen-20.500.12657-334272022-04-13T14:17:29Z Fungal Disease in Britain and the United States 1850–2000 Homei, Aya Worboys, Michael candidiasis mycotoxins aspergillosis fungal infections dermatophytosis Antibiotic Fungus Mycosis United States bic Book Industry Communication::M Medicine::MJ Clinical & internal medicine::MJC Diseases & disorders In this book, we discuss the changing medical and public profile of fungal infections in the period 1850–2000. We consider four sets of diseases: ringworm and athlete’s foot (dermatophytosis); thrush or candidiasis (infection with Candida albicans); endemic, geographically specific infections in North America (coccidioidomycosis, blastomycosis and histoplasmosis) and mycotoxins; and aspergillosis (infection with Aspergillus fumigatus). We discuss each disease in relation to developing medical knowledge and practices, and to social changes associated with ‘modernity’. Thus, mass schooling provided ideal conditions for the spread of ringworm of the scalp in children, and the rise of college sports and improvement of personal hygiene led to the spread of athlete’s foot. Antibiotics seemed to open the body to more serious Candida infections, as did new methods to treat cancers and the development of transplantation. Regional fungal infections in North America came to the fore due to the economic development of certain regions, where population movement brought in non-immune groups who were vulnerable to endemic mycoses. Fungal toxins or mycotoxins were discovered as by-products of modern food storage and distribution technologies. Lastly, the rapid development and deployment of new medical technologies, such as intensive care and immunosuppression in the last quarter of the twentieth century, increased the incidence of aspergillosis and other systemic mycoses. 2014-12-31 23:55:55 2020-03-18 13:36:15 2020-04-01T14:44:05Z 2020-04-01T14:44:05Z 2013 book 474551 OCN: 862231184 9781137377029 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/33427 eng Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History application/pdf n/a 474551.pdf http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=745242 Springer Nature Palgrave Macmillan 10.1057/9781137377029 10.1057/9781137377029 6c6992af-b843-4f46-859c-f6e9998e40d5 5272ea3a-c2f4-4b6e-9d98-e8ec20db437c 2491f64a-f485-41ab-90e3-1e1f406d59ae 322fa83d-59ae-41e3-941a-c77a1b19b5e8 4643c09c-f1cd-488d-ad5a-ea0abb2aa868 31899373-1d83-4de3-a695-f2ccb89c2028 457b3a48-1a54-436d-88c3-f3674cb4f984 2ef54357-c24d-4b30-ad55-6d4c43ed7b90 411b0446-d8fd-4aa2-96ec-07f70971ac47 da680e52-9671-4704-b76d-11896418a174 02d3554d-6a45-48d9-8b40-d875c5a30906 55eac666-085b-454b-a106-fcfefae4b7b0 e2a90a32-dd2e-4119-aaf8-da50a72db704 d859fbd3-d884-4090-a0ec-baf821c9abfd 9781137377029 Wellcome Palgrave Macmillan 225 Basingstoke 074971 1007326 Wellcome Trust Wellcome open access
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In this book, we discuss the changing medical and public profile of fungal infections in the period 1850–2000. We consider four sets of diseases: ringworm and athlete’s foot (dermatophytosis); thrush or candidiasis (infection with Candida albicans); endemic, geographically specific infections in North America (coccidioidomycosis, blastomycosis and histoplasmosis) and mycotoxins; and aspergillosis (infection with Aspergillus fumigatus). We discuss each disease in relation to developing medical knowledge and practices, and to social changes associated with ‘modernity’. Thus, mass schooling provided ideal conditions for the spread of ringworm of the scalp in children, and the rise of college sports and improvement of personal hygiene led to the spread of athlete’s foot. Antibiotics seemed to open the body to more serious Candida infections, as did new methods to treat cancers and the development of transplantation. Regional fungal infections in North America came to the fore due to the economic development of certain regions, where population movement brought in non-immune groups who were vulnerable to endemic mycoses. Fungal toxins or mycotoxins were discovered as by-products of modern food storage and distribution technologies. Lastly, the rapid development and deployment of new medical technologies, such as intensive care and immunosuppression in the last quarter of the twentieth century, increased the incidence of aspergillosis and other systemic mycoses.
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