White Plague Tuberculosis, Man and Society

Name: White Plague Tuberculosis, Man and Society
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ISBN: 9780813512242

ISBN-10: 0813512247

ISBN-13: 9780813512242

Edition: 1987 (Reprint)

Authors: Jean Dubos, David Mechanic, Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz, Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz

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Book details

List price: $40.95
Copyright year: 1987
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Publication date: 3/1/1987
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 277
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



Foreword



Introductory Essay: Dubos and Tuberculosis, Master Teachers



To Our Sources


Introduction to the First Edition



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



The Causes of Tuberculosis



Phthisis, Consumption and Tubercles



Percussion, Auscultation and the Unitarian Theory of Phthisis



The Germ Theory of Tuberculosis



Infection and Disease



Cure and Prevention of Tuberculosis



The Evaluation of Therapeutic Procedures



Treatment and Natural Resistance



Drugs, Vaccines and Public Health Measures



Healthy Living and Sanatoria



Tuberculosis and Society



The Evolution of Epidemics



Tuberculosis and Industrial Civilization



Tuberculosis and Social Technology


Appendices


Bibliography and Notes


Index