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xxxviii, 277 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm |
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| Note |
Reprint. Originally published: Boston : Little, Brown, 1952; with new introd. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-269) and index. |
| Contents |
Foreword / David Mechanic -- Introductory Essay: Dubos and Tuberculosis, Master Teachers / Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz -- To Our Sources -- Introduction to the First Edition -- Part One: The White Plague in the Nineteenth Century ; The Captain of All the Men of Death ; Death Warrant for Keats ; Flight from the North Winds ; Contagion and Heredity ; Consumption and the Romantic Age -- Part Two: The Causes of Tuberculosis ; Phthisis, Consumption and Tubercles ; Percussion, Auscultation and the Unitarian Theory of Phthisis ; The Germ Theory of Tuberculosis ; Infection and Disease -- Part Three: Cure and Prevention of Tuberculosis ; The Evaluation of Therapeutic Procedures ; Treatment and Natural Resistance ; Drugs, Vaccines and Public Health Measures ; Healthy Living and Sanatoria -- Part Four: Tuberculosis and Society ; The Evolution of Epidemics ; Tuberculosis and Industrial Civilization ; Tuberculosis and Social Technology. |
| Summary |
"In The White Plague, René and Jean Dubos argue that the great increase of tuberculosis was intimately connected with the rise of an industrial, urbanized society and - a much more controversial idea when this book first appeared forty years ago - that the progress of medical science had very little to do with the marked decline in tuberculosis in the twentieth century."--Back Cover |
| Subject(s) |
Tuberculosis -- History.
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Tuberculosis -- Social aspects.
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| Alternate Author |
Dubos, Jean, 1918-
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