{"product_id":"the-white-plague-tuberculosis-man-and-society-paperback-softback-9780813512242","title":"The White Plague; Tuberculosis, Man and Society (Paperback \/ softback) 9780813512242","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe White Plague\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eTuberculosis, Man and Society\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJean Dubos (Author), David Mechanic (Foreword by), Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz (Introduction by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780813512242\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 March 1987\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e277 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 2.3 cm, 0.425 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe White Plague has long been regarded as a classic in the social and environmental history of disease. This reprint of the 1952 edition features new introductory writings by two distinguished practitioners of the sociology and history of medicine. David Mechanic's foreword describes the personal and intellectual experience that shaped RenÉ Dubos's view of tuberculosis. Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz's historical introduction reexamines The White Plague in light of recent work on the social history of tuberculosis. Her thought-provoking essay pays particular attention to the broader cultural and medical assumptions about sickness and sick people that inform a society’s approach to the conquest of disease.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eForeword by David Mechanic\u003cbr\u003e Introductory Essay: Dubos and Tuberculosis, Master Teachers by Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz\u003cbr\u003e To Our Sources\u003cbr\u003e Introduction to the First Edition\u003cbr\u003e Part One: The White Plague in the Nineteenth Century\u003cbr\u003e I The Captain of All the Men of Death\u003cbr\u003e II Death Warrant for Keats\u003cbr\u003e III Flight from the North Winds\u003cbr\u003e IV Contagion and Heredity\u003cbr\u003e V Consumption and the Romantic Age\u003cbr\u003e Part Two: The Causes of Tuberculosis\u003cbr\u003e VI Phthisis, Consumption and Tubercles\u003cbr\u003e VII Percussion, Auscultation and the Unitarian Theory\u003cbr\u003e VIII The Germ Theory of Tuberculosis\u003cbr\u003e IX Infection and Disease\u003cbr\u003e Part Three: Cure and Prevention of Tuberculosis\u003cbr\u003e X The Evaluation of Therapeutic Procedures\u003cbr\u003e XI Treatment and Natural Resistance\u003cbr\u003e XII Drugs, Vaccines and Public Health Measures\u003cbr\u003e XIII Healthy Living and Sanatoria\u003cbr\u003e Part Four: Tuberculosis and Society\u003cbr\u003e XIV The Evolution of Epidemics\u003cbr\u003e XV Tuberculosis and Industrial Civilization\u003cbr\u003e XVI Tuberculosis and Social Technology\u003cbr\u003e Appendices\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography and Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52670834606360,"sku":"9780813512242","price":25.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-white-plague-tuberculosis-man-and-society-paperback-softback-9780813512242","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}