The white plague : tuberculosis, man, and society
René J. Dubos (Author), Jean Dubos (Author), Gutmann Barbara Rosenkrantz (Writer of introduction), David Mechanic (Writer of preface)
"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."--Back Cover
Print Book, English, 1987
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Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, 1987
History
xxxviii, 277 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
9780813512242, 0813512247
1047777368
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
Reprint. Originally published: Boston : Little, Brown, 1952; with new introduction