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The white death : a history of tuberculosis / Thomas Dormandy.
Author
Dormandy, Thomas
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Language
English
Published/Created
New York : New York University Press, 2000.
Description
xiv, 433 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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RC311 .D67 2000
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Tuberculosis
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"Tuberculosis was a killer on a huge scale, ever present and lurking rather than epidemic. The explosion of tuberculosis in the nineteenth century went hand in hand with rapid industrialization and was fomented by bad housing and poverty. From Roman times, the disease fascinated and frustrated doctors, who described its symptoms without understanding its causes.
For the Victorians, who elevated illness and morbidity into art forms, the victims of tuberculosis were the ultimate in pale and interesting, not least because they were so often young and gifted. The roll call of genius reads like an anthem for doomed youth: Keats, Chopin, the Brontes (Charlotte, Emily, and Anne), Robert Louis Stevenson, Chekhov, Orwell, to name but a few. The dying heroine became as much the stock in trade of Romantic fiction and painting as of opera.".
"Thomas Dormandy's account of the complex social, artistic, and natural history of tuberculosis is also a chronicle of the medical profession at its best and worst."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes
Originally published: London ; Rio Grande, Ohio : Hambledon Press, 1999.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
1. The Mists of History
2. Half in Love with Easeful Death
3. The Sounds of Tuberculosis
4. The Diathesis
5. Three Heretics
6. Sacrifice and Atonement
7. The Poor
8. The Romantic Image
9. Staying at Home
10. Seeking the Sun
11. Going West
12. The Cause
13. Tuberculin
14. Rest and Fresh Air
15. Under English Skies
16. Saranac Lake and Riverside
17. Doctor, Patient, Writer
18. Advances
19. The New Pathology
20. Blip
21. Peacetime Aetiologies
22. Collapse Therapy
23. Gold Rush
24. Quacks
25. The Undying Man
26. Private Charity: Public Health
27. A Model Patient
28. Workshops and Village Settlements
29. Milk
30. Vaccines
31. The Surgeon Cometh
32. Dawn
33. An Imperfect Civilisation.
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ISBN
0814719279 (cl. : alk. paper)
LCCN
99032169
OCLC
41476771
RCP
C - S
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