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| Acknowledgements | ||
| Introduction | ||
| 1 | The Mists of History | 1 |
| 2 | Half in Love with Easeful Death | 13 |
| 3 | The Sounds of Tuberculosis | 27 |
| 4 | The Diathesis | 41 |
| 5 | Three Heretics | 51 |
| 6 | Sacrifice and Atonement | 61 |
| 7 | The Poor | 73 |
| 8 | The Romantic Image | 85 |
| 9 | Staying at Home | 101 |
| 10 | Seeking the Sun | 105 |
| 11 | Going West | 117 |
| 12 | The Cause | 127 |
| 13 | Tuberculin | 139 |
| 14 | Rest and Fresh Air | 147 |
| 15 | Under English Skies | 161 |
| 16 | Saranac Lake and Riverside | 173 |
| 17 | Doctor, Patient, Writer | 187 |
| 18 | Advances | 199 |
| 19 | The New Pathology | 209 |
| 20 | Blip | 223 |
| 21 | Peacetime Aetiologies | 235 |
| 22 | Collapse Therapy | 249 |
| 23 | Gold Rush | 265 |
| 24 | Quacks | 273 |
| 25 | The Undying Man | 285 |
| 26 | Private Charity: Public Health | 297 |
| 27 | A Model Patient | 313 |
| 28 | Workshops and Village Settlements | 321 |
| 29 | Milk | 329 |
| 30 | Vaccines | 339 |
| 31 | The Surgeon Cometh | 351 |
| 32 | Dawn | 361 |
| 33 | An Imperfect Civilisation | 377 |
| Bibliography | 393 | |
| Index | 405 |
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Dean W. Ballew
reviewed White Death: A History of Tuberculosis - Thomas Dormandy - Hardcover on June 04, 2015
White Death
I read this book because some genealogical research had uncovered a number of relatives many generations ago who had died of tuberculosis, and I wanted to learn more about the disease. It was accessible, even funny at times, sometimes jarring in its colloquial and judgmental tones. It was tremendously informative, and I learned a lot about the disease and its history, pathology, and epidemiology. I wished it had described the disease, briefly, and succinctly, in terms of what caused it, how it progressed, etc. This was all pieced together from biographical sketches that were very interesting, but I found myself still seeking out Wikipedia and other sources to identify the causes, symptoms, and progression of the disease articulated succinctly.
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White Death: A History of Tuberculosis - Thomas Dormandy - Hardcover, The victims of tuberculosis (usually known as consumption) included not only Keats, The Brontës, Chopin and Chekhov, but members of almost every family. It was a killer on a huge scale.The White Death
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