The white plague
Subtitle: tuberculosis, man and society
By: by Rene and Jean Dubos.
Contributors: Dubos, Jean, 1918-
Edition: [1st ed.]
Publisher: Little, Brown
Published: 1952
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 277
Subjects: Tuberculosis -- History.
Description: 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.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [241]-269.