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The White Death: A History of Tuberculosis

Catégorie: Adolescents, Bandes dessinées, Santé, Forme et Diététique
Auteur: Luis Sepulveda, Cavendish. Lucy
Éditeur: Jennifer Zimmermann, Brandon Sanderson
Publié: 2019-07-01
Écrivain: Michael Hambling
Langue: Polonais, Tagalog, Croate
Format: epub, pdf

The White Death: A History of Tuberculosis | The BMJ - Consumption was the layman's succinct name for the disease; a word that graphically sums up the effects of untreated tuberculosis—the unfortunate victim "consumed" by weight loss and breathlessness. Tuberculosis has not yet been eradicated, however. To paraphrase one of the participants in the Northern Ireland peace process, it hasn't gone away, you know. There is still a substantial reservoir of bovine tuberculosis in Ireland, and multiple drug resistant forms of the ...

The White Death: A History of Tuberculosis: ... - This is a history of tuberculosis, including its social, artistic and human impact. Thomas Dormandy's account of the search for the cure is complemented by a description of its complex natural history; portraits of individual sufferers, including writers, artists and musicians, whose lives were shaped (and often curtailed) by the disease. Tuberculosis is not a disease of the past, in many parts of the world it is still a bigger killer than AIDS; while in America and Europe drug-resistant ...

The White Death: A History of Tuberculosis: Dormandy ... - The White Death is particularly strong on TB's influence on European high and Bohemian culture and on the stories of individual scientists and doctors involved in research and treatment. Dormandy has a bit less patience for the bureaucratic history of public health and the political intrigues of academia, a feeling I share.

History of tuberculosis - Wikipedia - Throughout history, the disease tuberculosis has been variously known as consumption, phthisis, and the White Plague. It is generally accepted that the causative agent, Mycobacterium tuberculosis originated from other, more primitive organisms of the same genus Mycobacterium. In 2014, results of a new DNA study of a tuberculosis genome reconstructed from remains in southern Peru suggest that human tuberculosis is less than 6,000 years old. Even if researchers theorise that humans ...

The White Death: A History of Tuberculosis - Living in the Shadow of Death: Tuberculosis and the Social Experience of Illness in American History

The White Death: A History of Tuberculosis: ... - 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 musicians, whose lives and work were shaped (and often tragically curtailed) by the disease. But, tuberculosis is not just a disease of ...

The White Death: A History of Tuberculosis: Dormandy ... - 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 musicians, whose lives and work were shaped (and often tragically curtailed) by the disease. But, tuberculosis is not just a disease of the past. In many parts of the world it is still a bigger killer than AIDS, while in America and ...

The white death : a history of tuberculosis / Thomas ... - 1999, The white death : a history of tuberculosis / Thomas Dormandy Hambledon Press London ; Rio Grande, Ohio. Wikipedia Citation. Please see Wikipedia's template documentation for further citation fields that may be required. {{Citation | title=The white death : a history of tuberculosis / Thomas Dormandy | author1=Dormandy, Thomas | year=1999 | publisher=Hambledon Press | isbn=1852851694 ...

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History of Tuberculosis. Part 2 - the Sanatoria and the ... - Tuberculosis has been a severe health problem throughout recorded human history, and probably for many thousands of years before that. It has been known by many names including phthisis, consumption, the "white plague" and "the robber of youth". The disease had been romanticised in the 19th century by people such as John Keats, Edgar ...

History of tuberculosis | Canadian Public Health Association - History of tuberculosis The Anti-Tuberculosis Hospital of the Royal Ottawa Sanatorium. [date unknown] In 1867, tuberculosis (TB) was the leading cause of death in Canada. The bacterium that causes TB, the tubercle bacillus, was discovered by a German scientist, Robert Koch, in 1882.

Book: The White Death: A History of Tuberculosis - Europe ... - There is still a substantial reservoir of bovine tuberculosis in Ireland, and multiple drug resistant forms of the disease are prevalent in the United States. Thomas Dormandy is a pathologist, and he has certainly left no stone unturned in this beautifully written volume on the history of tuberculosis. He has a knack of explaining technical matters, and he weaves literature, social history, pharmacology, and epidemiology into an entertaining tale. The publishers have wisely placed his witty ...

The history of tuberculosis: from the first historical ... - Tuberculosis (TB) is a contagious, infectious disease, due to Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MT) that has always been a permanent challenge over the course of human history, because of its severe social implications. It has been hypothesized that the genus Mycobacterium originated more than 150 million years ago. In the Middle Ages, scrofula, a disease affecting cervical lymph nodes, was described as a new clinical form of TB. The illness was known in England and France as "king's ...

The day we discovered the cause of the 'white death' | PBS ... - The day we discovered the cause of the 'white death'. Of all the infectious scourges that have prowled through human history, artists and writers have deemed tuberculosis to be among the most ...

Thomas Dormandy, The white death: a history of ... - Thomas Dormandy, The white death: a history of tuberculosis, London and Rio Grande, Hambledon Press, 1999, pp. xiv, 433, illus., £25.00 (1-85295-169-4). Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 November 2012

The White Death: A History of Tuberculosis: ... - 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 musicians, whose lives and work were shaped (and often tragically curtailed) by the disease. But, tuberculosis is not just a disease of the past. In many parts of the world it is still a bigger killer than AIDS, while in America and ...

[PDF] The white death: a history of tuberculosis ... - confirmed a high degree of species specificity of myxoma virus subtypes, and their mechanical transmission by mosquitoes and fleas. Only then could the hard work carried out by Fenner and coworkers begin: and to study virus virulence and subsequent changes in genetic resistance of rabbits and of virus. A vaccine to protect rabbits in commercial rabbitries was developed in 1954.

History | World TB Day | TB | CDC - On March 24, 1882, Dr. Robert Koch announced the discovery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacteria that causes tuberculosis (TB). During this time, TB killed one out of every seven people living in the United States and Europe.

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History of Tuberculosis. Part 1 - Phthisis, consumption ... - Tuberculosis was also known as phthisis and consumption from Hippocrates through to the 18th century [1], the white death [4] and the great white plague [5] during the 19th century, and other names which evoked the despair and horror of the disease such as the robber of youth [6], the Captain of all these men of Death [7], the graveyard cough [8], and the King's-Evill [4]. During the 18th and 19th centuries tuberculosis was epidemic in Europe and caused millions of deaths, particularly in ...

The White Death: A History of Tuberculosis by Thomas Dormandy - This is a history of tuberculosis, including its social, artistic and human impact. Thomas Dormandy's account of the search for the cure is complemented by a description of its complex natural history; portraits of individual sufferers, including writers, artists and musicians, whose lives were shaped (and often curtailed) by the disease. Tuberculosis is not a disease of t

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The Messed Up History Of Tuberculosis - - Tuberculosis is featured and romanticized in countless works of art. Emily Brontë, who died of tuberculosis herself in 1848 at the age of 30, includes several tubercular characters in Wuthering Heights, including Cathy, whom she describes as "rather thin, but young and fresh complexioned and her eyes sparkled as bright as diamonds."

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The white death: a history of tuberculosis - Abstract ... - Improvement in tuberculosis infection control practice via technical support in two regions of Ethiopia. Ayalew A, Gashu Z, Anteneh T, Hiruy N, Habte D, Jerene D, Alem G, Jemal I, Melese M, Suarez PG. BMC Infect Dis, 18(1):557, 12 Nov 2018

The White Death: A History of Tuberculosis: Written by ... - The White Death: A History of Tuberculosis: Written by Thomas Dormandy, 2000 Edition, Publisher: New York Univ Pr [Hardcover]: Books -

The White Plague: Tuberculosis, Man, and Society - René ... - In 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 White Plague has long ...

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