The German physician and scientist Robert Koch (1843-1910) was pioneer in identification of pathogens, winning the Nobel Prize for his work on tuberculosis. Gradmann (history of medicine, University o
Following the testing of therapeutic sera, the quantified evaluation of a pharmaceutical's efficacy became a key feature of medicine in the twentieth century.The case studies in this volume offer comp
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries, TPDL 2011 - formerly known as ECDL (European Conference on Research and Adva