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Tuberculosis /

"Tuberculosis is a complicated medical condition that has a rich and important history, a distinctive social context, and an active and destructive present. The disease appears in Greek literature as early as 460 BCE and was a favorite of 19th-century novelists whose heroines often succumbed to...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Dyer, Carol A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Santa Barbara, Calif. : Greenwood, Ã2010.
Colección:Biographies of disease.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Tuberculosis: contagion and cause
  • Signs and certainty: tuberculosis symptoms and diagnosis
  • The history of tuberculosis
  • Early efforts to tame tuberculosis
  • Antibiotics: treatment success, challenge, and cure
  • Tuberculosis in the arts: from the ancients to Moulin Rouge!
  • Resurgence of the social disease: tuberculosis makes a comeback
  • Tuberculosis and the future
  • Tuberculosis timeline.