The Story of Clinical Pulmonary Tuberculosis
Author : Lawrason Brown
Publisher :
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 46,26 MB
Release : 1941
Category : Medical
ISBN :
Author : Lawrason Brown
Publisher :
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 46,26 MB
Release : 1941
Category : Medical
ISBN :
Author : King K. Holmes
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 1027 pages
File Size : 31,9 MB
Release : 2017-11-06
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1464805253
Infectious diseases are the leading cause of death globally, particularly among children and young adults. The spread of new pathogens and the threat of antimicrobial resistance pose particular challenges in combating these diseases. Major Infectious Diseases identifies feasible, cost-effective packages of interventions and strategies across delivery platforms to prevent and treat HIV/AIDS, other sexually transmitted infections, tuberculosis, malaria, adult febrile illness, viral hepatitis, and neglected tropical diseases. The volume emphasizes the need to effectively address emerging antimicrobial resistance, strengthen health systems, and increase access to care. The attainable goals are to reduce incidence, develop innovative approaches, and optimize existing tools in resource-constrained settings.
Author : Katherine Ott
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 11,16 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780674299108
Consider two polar images of the same medical condition: the pale and fragile Camille ensconced on a chaise in a Victorian parlor, daintily coughing a small spot of blood onto her white lace pillow, and a wretched poor man in a Bowery flophouse spreading a dread and deadly infection. Now Katherine Ott chronicles how in one century a romantic, ambiguous affliction of the spirit was transformed into a disease that threatened public health and civic order. She persuasively argues that there was no constant identity to the disease over time, no "core" tuberculosis. What we understand today as pulmonary tuberculosis would have been largely unintelligible to a physician or patient in the late nineteenth century. Although medically the two terms described the same disease of the lungs, Ott shows that "tuberculosis" and "consumption" were diagnosed, defined, and treated distinctively by both lay and professional health workers. Ott traces the shift from the pre-industrial world of 1870, in which consumption was conceived of primarily as a middle-class malaise that conferred virtue, heightened spirituality, and gentility on the sufferer, to the post-industrial world of today, in which tuberculosis is viewed as a microscopic enemy, fought on an urban battleground and attacking primarily the outcast poor and AIDS patients. Ott's focus is the changing definition of the disease in different historical eras and environments. She explores its external trappings, from the symptoms doctors chose to notice (whether a pale complexion or a tubercle in a dish) to the significance of the economic and social circumstances of the patient. Emphasizing the material culture of disease--medical supplies, advertisements for faraway rest cures, outdoor sick porches, and invalid hammocks--Ott provides insight into people's understanding of illness and how to combat it. Fevered Lives underscores the shifting meanings of consumption/tuberculosis in an extraordinarily readable cultural history.
Author : Horace Green
Publisher :
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 12,97 MB
Release : 1864
Category : Tuberculosis
ISBN :
Author : Thomas M. Daniel
Publisher : University Rochester Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 20,88 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781580460675
Pioneers in Medicine and Their Impact on Tuberculosis tells the stories of six individuals [Laennec, Koch, Biggs, von Pirquet, Frost, and Waksman], each of whom made significant contributions to their own respective medicalfields, as well as to the overall battle to conquer tuberculosis.
Author : Barbara Bates
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 30,50 MB
Release : 2015-07-27
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1512800295
Tuberculosis was the most common cause of death in the United States during the nineteenth century. The lingering illness devastated the lives of patients and families, and by the turn of the century, fears of infectiousness compounded their anguish. Historians have usually focused on the changing medical knowledge of tuberculosis or on the social campaigns to combat it. Using a wide range of sources, especially the extensive correspondence of a Philadelphia physician, Lawrence F. Flick, in Bargaining for Life Barbara Bates documents the human story by chronicling how men and women attempted to cope with the illness, get treatment, earn their living, and maintain social relationships.
Author : Robert Young Keers
Publisher : W.B. Saunders Company
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 24,76 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Medical
ISBN :
Author : Horace Green
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 39,12 MB
Release : 2019-08-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781406922318
This is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the original versions are generally quite old, there may occasionally be certain imperfections within these reproductions. We're happy to make these classics available again for future generations to enjoy!
Author : Edward Osgood Otis
Publisher :
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 22,70 MB
Release : 1917
Category : Tuberculosis
ISBN :
Author : Thomas Dormandy
Publisher :
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 15,60 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Medical
ISBN :
This is a history of tuberculosis as a whole, including its social, artistic and human impact. Dormandy's graphic account for a cure is accompanied by a description of its complex natural history.