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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... young Americans as typhoid or diphtheria . Painful memories of tuberculosis have passed so far from public con- sciousness that Newsweek could recently run a story about Fred Schmidt , a sixty - nine - year - old man who survived a bout ...
... young women succumbed to tuberculosis more often than young men . History regularly provided art and science with predictable instances of a woman's flawed condition . Before the Civil War , Dr. Josiah Curtis , a Mas- sachusetts ...
... ” At this dreadful time of massive unemployment was particularly difficult to consider withdrawing general preventive assistance from the young and the poor who had historically been considered most xxviii INTRODUCTORY ESSAY.
Tuberculosis, Man, and Society René Jules Dubos, Jean Dubos. young and the poor who had historically been considered most at risk.13 Very shortly after the Depression new studies showed the need to modify the notion that immunity stemmed ...
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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 |