The white plague
Subtitle: tuberculosis, man, and society
By: René and Jean Dubos ; foreword by David Mechanic ; introductory essay by Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz.
Contributors: Dubos, Jean, 1918-
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 1987
Place of publication: New Brunswick
Language: eng
Number of pages: 277
Subjects: Tuberculosis -- History.; Tuberculosis -- Social aspects.; Tuberculosis -- popular works.
Description: "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
Notes: Bibliography: p. [241]-269.
Reprint. Originally published: Boston : Little, Brown, 1952; with new introd.
Includes index.