Tuberculosis Then and Now
Perspectives on the History of an Infectious Disease
1st Edition
Published on 22. June 2014
252 pages
978-0-7735-7704-6 (ISBN)
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One-third of the world's population is currently infected with the TB bacillus and up to ten percent of these individuals will go on to develop tuberculosis. Today the disease is most prevalent in Africa and South Asia, but a century and a half ago it was the largest single cause of death in Europe and North America.
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English
Place of publication
Montreal, QC
United States
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Digital original
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1,55 MB
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978-0-7735-7704-6 (9780773577046)
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Flurin Condrau | Michael Worboys
Tuberculosis Then and Now
Perspectives on the History of an Infectious Disease
Book
01/2010
McGill-Queen's University Press
€148.56
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Flurin Condrau | Michael Worboys
Tuberculosis Then and Now
Perspectives on the History of an Infectious Disease
Book
01/2010
3rd Edition
McGill-Queen's University Press
€35.50
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Condrau Flurin:
Flurin Condrau, professor of history of medicine at the University of Manchester, is an expert in the comparative history of infectious diseases, tuberculosis, and urban sanitary movements and is currently working on the history of patients as well as onFlurin Condrau, professor of history of medicine at the University of Manchester, is an expert in the comparative history of infectious diseases, tuberculosis, and urban sanitary movements and is currently working on the history of patients as well as on
Flurin Condrau, professor of history of medicine at the University of Manchester, is an expert in the comparative history of infectious diseases, tuberculosis, and urban sanitary movements and is currently working on the history of patients as well as onFlurin Condrau, professor of history of medicine at the University of Manchester, is an expert in the comparative history of infectious diseases, tuberculosis, and urban sanitary movements and is currently working on the history of patients as well as on
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- 1 Tuberculosis and Its Histories: Then and Now
- 2 Lay Disease Narratives, Tuberculosis, and Health Education Films
- 3 Targeting Patient Zero
- 4 Beyond the Total Institution: Towards a Reinterpretation of the Tuberculosis Sanatorium
- 5 The Great White Plague Turns Alien: Tuberculosis and Immigration in Australia, 1901-2001
- 6 Importation, Deprivation, and Susceptibility: Tuberculosis Narratives in Postwar Britain
- 7 Before McKeown: Explaining the Decline of Tuberculosis in Britain, 1880-1930
- 8 "The right not to suffer consumption": Health, Welfare Charity, and the Working Class in Spain during the Restoration Period
- 9 Lobbying and Resistance with regard to Policy on Bovine Tuberculosis in Britain, 1900-1939: An Inside/Outside Model
- 10 At Home in the Colonies: the WHO-MRC Trials at the Madras Chemotherapy Centre in the 1950s and 1960s
- Contributors
- Index
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