Healing Tuberculosis in the Woods - Medicine and Science at the End of the Nineteenth Century (Hardcover)

In 1882, Robert Koch discovered the TB bacillus, signaling a redirection of medical thinking from the trial and error guesswork of individual experience toward medical care based upon science. Professor Ellison uses the career of Edward Livingston Trudeau (1848-1915), a recognized leader in the American crusade against tuberculosis, to examine the development of medical science as a human process. Ellison asks how the germ theory influenced the thinking of physicians like Trudeau; how it affected the sanitorium treatment of patients, and even the development of laboratory studies. During Trudeau's lifetime, physicians confronted a killer disease with contradictory knowledge that was largely empirical, based on their clinical experience. Koch's discovery of the cause of tuberculosis raised the hope that a cure was within easy reach. But, in the end, a cure eluded Trudeau. Despite this, he adopted a method of caring for patients in the early stages of tuberculosis, he legitimated that system to the public, and he defended it before his fellow physicians. Trudeau's story has lessons for the way society looks at medicine specifically and all sciences in general. As such, this book will be of great interest to historians of medicine and science.

General

Imprint:	Praeger Publishers Inc
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	September 1994
First published:	September 1994
Authors:	David L. Ellison
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 12mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	216
ISBN-13:	978-0-313-29005-3
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > General Books > Medicine > General issues > History of medicine Books > Medicine > Clinical & internal medicine > Respiratory medicine Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > History of science Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Human biology & related topics > Medical anthropology Books > Medicine > Clinical & internal medicine > Diseases & disorders > Infectious & contagious diseases > General Books > Biography > General Promotions
LSN:	0-313-29005-9
Barcode:	9780313290053

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