Title: The white plague : tuberculosis, man, and society /
Authors: Dubos, René J. 1901-1982; Dubos, Jean, 1918-
Publisher: Rutgers University Press,
Year: 1987
Subjects: Tuberculosis; Tuberculosis History; Tuberculosis Social aspects.
Abstract: "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
Contents: 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.