The white plague : tuberculosis, man, and society
René Dubos
Bok · Engelsk · 1987
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| Utgitt | New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers , cop. 1987
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| Omfang | XXXVIII, 277 s. : ill.
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| Opplysninger | 1. utg. 1952. - Opprinnelig utgitt : Boston, Little Brown, 1952. - 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.. - "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."
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| ISBN | 0813512247. - 9780813512242
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