Tuberculosis /
"Tuberculosis is a complicated medical condition that has a rich and important history, a distinctive social context, and an active and destructive present. The disease appears in Greek literature as early as 460 BCE and was a favorite of 19th-century novelists whose heroines often succumbed to...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Santa Barbara, Calif. :
Greenwood,
2010
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| Series: | Biographies of disease.
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Tuberculosis: contagion and cause
- Signs and certainty: tuberculosis symptoms and diagnosis
- The history of tuberculosis
- Early efforts to tame tuberculosis
- Antibiotics: treatment success, challenge, and cure
- Tuberculosis in the arts: from the ancients to Moulin Rouge!
- Resurgence of the social disease: tuberculosis makes a comeback
- Tuberculosis and the future
- Tuberculosis timeline.
