The White Plague: Tuberculosis, Man and SocietyLittle, Brown, 1952 - 277 sider The authors examine the social aspects of the TB epidemic, along with some of the biological factors. They show how TB was romanticized, how it was portrayed as a demon coming to rob the healthy of life, and how it sparked scientific invention - in particular the stethoscope. |
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