[Get free] The White Death: A History of Tuberculosis
☆ Thomas. Dormandy ☆
| #6468910 in Books | 1999 | Format: Import | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.75 x6.75 x1.50l, | File Name: 1852851694 | 336 pages
||35 of 36 people found the following review helpful.| A Consuming disease|By A Customer|When the whole world seemed to be suffering with flu last winter I read and thoroughly enjoyed "Flu" by Gina Kolata. I caught the sickness bug (bad pun) and read several more social-history books about deadly diseases and living conditions in the past, and Dormandy's "The White Death" was by far the best. We readers are all familiar with t|From Publishers Weekly|Accessible scientific and sociological history are combined by Dormandy, a consultant pathologist in London, in this account of a tenacious disease that has claimed victims from ancient Egypt to 1990s New York City. Focusing mostly on wes
The victims of tuberculosis (usually known as consumption) included not only Keats, The Brontës, Chopin and Chekhov, but members of almost every family. It was a killer on a huge scale.
The White Death is an outstanding history of tuberculosis. Thomas Dormandy's engrossing account of the search for a cure is complemented by a description of its complex natural history and by portraits of individual sufferers, including writers, artists, and musi...
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