The White Plague: Tuberculosis, Man, and SocietyIn 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. The 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. |
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... Man , and Society René and Jean Dubos With a new Foreword by David Mechanic and a new Introductory Essay by Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz The White Plague THE WHITE PLAGUE THE WHITE PLAGUE Tuberculosis , Man ,. Front Cover.
... white plague . Bibliography : p . Includes index . 1. Tuberculosis - History . 2. Tuberculosis- Social aspects . I. Dubos , Jean , 1918- II . Title . [ DNLM : 1. Tuberculosis - popular works . WF 200 D817w ] RC310.D82 1987 ISBN 0-8135 ...
... White Plague : Tuberculosis , Man , and Society , a book that made such an understanding pos- sible , led to reflections about the medical and social conception of tuberculosis that are explored in the three sections of this es- say ...
... White Plague is a study of the changing values and symbols that came with the Industrial Revolution , and of the seemingly inex- plicable , pervasive , and ravaging disease that appeared in tan- dem with it . Alongside their account of ...
Contents
The Captain of All the Men of Death | 3 |
Death Warrant for Keats | 11 |
Flight from the North Winds | 18 |
Contagion and Heredity | 28 |
Consumption and the Romantic Age | 44 |
Phthisis Consumption and Tubercles | 69 |
Percussion Auscultation and the Unitarian Theory of Phthisis | 77 |
The Germ Theory of Tuberculosis | 94 |
Treatment and Natural Resistance | 139 |
Drugs Vaccines and Public Health Measures | 154 |
Healthy Living and Sanatoria | 173 |
The Evolution of Epidemics | 185 |
Tuberculosis and Industrial Civilization | 197 |
Tuberculosis and Social Technology | 208 |
Appendices | 229 |
Bibliography and Notes | 235 |