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Spitting Blood

- The history of tuberculosis
Af: Helen Bynum Engelsk Paperback

Spitting Blood

- The history of tuberculosis
Af: Helen Bynum Engelsk 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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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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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 352
ISBN-13: 9780198727514
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 0198727518
Udg. Dato: 22 jan 2015
Længde: 18mm
Bredde: 131mm
Højde: 197mm
Forlag: Oxford University Press
Oplagsdato: 22 jan 2015
Forfatter(e): Helen Bynum
Forfatter(e) Helen Bynum


Kategori Smitsomme sygdomme. Infektioner


ISBN-13 9780198727514


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Paperback


Sider 352


Udgave


Længde 18mm


Bredde 131mm


Højde 197mm


Udg. Dato 22 jan 2015


Oplagsdato 22 jan 2015


Forlag Oxford University Press

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