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Spitting Blood - The history of tuberculosis (Paperback)
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Spitting Blood - The history of tuberculosis (Paperback)
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Tuberculosis is characterized as a social disease and few have been
more inextricably linked with human history. There is evidence from
the archaeological record that Mycobacterium tuberculosis and its
human hosts have been together for a very long time. The very
mention of tuberculosis brings to mind romantic images of great
literary figures pouring out their souls in creative works as their
bodies were being decimated by consumption. It is a disease that at
various times has had a certain glamour associated with it. From
the medieval period to the modern day, Helen Bynum explores the
history and development of tuberculosis throughout the world,
touching on the various discoveries that have emerged about the
disease over time, and focussing on the experimental approaches of
Jean-Antoine Villemin (1827-92) and Robert Koch (1842-1910). Bynum
also examines the place tuberculosis holds in the popular
imagination and its role in various forms of the dramatic arts. The
story of tuberculosis since the 1950s is complex, and Bynum
describes the picture emerging from the World Health Organization
of the difficulties that attended the management of the disease in
the developing world. In the meantime, tuberculosis has emerged
again in the West, both among the urban underclass and in
association with a new infection - HIV. The disease has returned
with a vengeance - in drug-resistant form. The story of
tuberculosis is far from over.
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