Tuberculosis Then and Now: Perspectives on the History of an Infectious Disease (McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services Studies in the History of ... the History of Medicine, Health, and Society) - Hardcover

Condrau, Flurin; Worboys, Michael

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0773536000 ISBN 13: 9780773536005

Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2009

Synopsis

Tuberculosis Then and Now One-third of the world's population is infected with the TB bacillus and up to ten per cent of these individuals will go on to develop tuberculosis. This title focuses on the changing medical, social, and cultural understanding of the disease and engages in a wider debate about the role of narrative in the social history of medicine. Full description

About this title

Product Description:

The changing medical, social, and cultural understandings of the deadly disease of tuberculosis and how it shaped the history of medicine

About the Author:

Flurin Condrau, professor of history of medicine at the University of Manchester, is an expert in the comparative history of infectious diseases, tuberculosis, and urban sanitary movements and is currently working on the history of patients as well as on

About this edition

• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0773536000
• ISBN 13: 9780773536005
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 243