One-third of the world's population is infected with the TB bacillus and up to ten per cent of these individuals will go on to develop tuberculosis. This title focuses on the changing medical, social, and cultural understanding of the disease and engages in a wider debate about the role of narrative in the social history of medicine.
Tuberculosis Then and Now Summary
Tuberculosis Then and Now: Perspectives on the History of an Infectious Disease: Volume 36 by Flurin Condrau
The changing medical, social, and cultural understandings of the deadly disease of tuberculosis and how it shaped the history of medicine
About Flurin Condrau
Flurin Condrau, professor of history of medicine at the University of Manchester, is an expert in the comparative history of infectious diseases, tuberculosis, and urban sanitary movements and is currently working on the history of patients as well as on
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Tuberculosis Then and Now: Perspectives on the History of an Infectious Disease: Volume 36 by Flurin Condrau
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