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The white death : a history of tuberculosis / Thomas Dormandy.
- Title
- The white death : a history of tuberculosis / Thomas Dormandy.
- Author
- Dormandy, Thomas.
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- Additional Authors
- Dormandy, Thomas.
- Description
- xiv, 433 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "Thomas Dormandy's account of the complex social, artistic, and natural history of tuberculosis is also a chronicle of the medical profession at its best and worst."--BOOK JACKET.
- "Tuberculosis was a killer on a huge scale, ever present and lurking rather than epidemic. The explosion of tuberculosis in the nineteenth century went hand in hand with rapid industrialization and was fomented by bad housing and poverty. From Roman times, the disease fascinated and frustrated doctors, who described its symptoms without understanding its causes.
- For the Victorians, who elevated illness and morbidity into art forms, the victims of tuberculosis were the ultimate in pale and interesting, not least because they were so often young and gifted. The roll call of genius reads like an anthem for doomed youth: Keats, Chopin, the Brontes (Charlotte, Emily, and Anne), Robert Louis Stevenson, Chekhov, Orwell, to name but a few. The dying heroine became as much the stock in trade of Romantic fiction and painting as of opera.".
- Subjects
- ISBN
- 0814719279 (cl. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 99032169
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries