Spitting Blood : The history of tuberculosis
Helen. Bynum
Bok Engelsk 2012 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | Oxford : : OUP Oxford, , 2012.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (349 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Prologue: George Orwell (1903-1950); 1 Ancient Bacteria, Old Diseases; 2 All with 'A Touch of Consumption'?; 3 Tubercles, Airs, Waters, and Places; 4 Consumption's Fashionistas; 5 Consumption Becomes Tuberculosis; 6 Design for Living; 7 Tuberculosis and the Health of the Race; 8 Streptomycin & Co; 9 A Job Half Done; Epilogue: 'There Is No Dypraxa'; Notes; Further Reading; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z. - Tuberculosis is characterised as a social disease and few have been more inextricably linked with human history. There is evidence from the archaeological record that Mycobacterium tuberculosis and its human hosts have been together for a very long time. The very mention of tuberculosis brings to mind romantic images of great literary figures pouring out their souls in creative works as their bodies were being decimated by consumption. It is a disease that at various timeshas had a certain glamour associated with it.From the medieval period to the modern day, Helen Bynum explores the history a
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| Emner | Actinomycetales Infections
Anti-Bacterial Agents Anti-Infective Agents Bacterial Infections Vis mer... Bacterial Infections and Mycoses
Chemical Actions and Uses Chemicals and Drugs Communicable Disease Control Diseases Environment and Public Health Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections Health Care Health Care Facilities, Manpower, and Services Health Facilities Hospitals Hospitals, Isolation Hospitals, Special Mycobacterium Infections Pharmacologic Actions Public Health Public Health Practice Therapeutic Uses Tuberculosis - history Paleopathology. Tuberculosis -- Epidemiology. Tuberculosis -- History. Health & Biological Sciences Infectious Diseases Medicine |
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| ISBN | 9780199542055
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