The White Death: A History of Tuberculosis
- ISBN-10
- 1852853328
- ISBN-13
- 9781852853327
- Series
- The White Death
- Category
- Medical
- Pages
- 433
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2002-03-01
- Publisher
- Burns & Oates
- Author
- Thomas Dormandy
Description
The victims of tuberculosis (usually known as consumption) included not only Keats, The Brontës, Chopin and Chekhov, but members of almost every family. It was a killer on a huge scale. The White Death is an outstanding history of tuberculosis. Thomas Dormandy's engrossing account of the search for a cure is complemented by a description of its complex natural history and by portraits of individual sufferers, including writers, artists, and musicians, whose lives and work were shaped (and often tragically curtailed) by the disease. But, tuberculosis is not just a disease of the past. In many parts of the world it is still a bigger killer than AIDS, while in America and Europe drug-resistant strains threaten its resurgence.
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Other editions
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- 1994
- 284 pages
- Paperback
- Witwatersrand University Press
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