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1	Illness as Metaphor more books like this by Susan Sontag add to wishlist These two influential essays--ILLNESS AS METAPHOR (1978) and its sequel from a decade later, AIDS AND ITS METAPHORS--tackle the uncomfortable subject of disease, and specifically the metaphors we use to try to come to terms with it. Dealing not only with AIDS but also with tuberculosis, syphilis, and cancer, Sontag makes a case for the necessity ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $13.71! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	The Plague & I more books like this by Betty MacDonald add to wishlist Tuberculosis. A terrifying word, as terrifying then as cancer is now. It meant entering a sanatorium for treatment, leaving her family, her children. And what if she did not recover? Hardly the basis for comedy, one would suppose. And one would be wrong. Betty MacDonald always had the ability to face up to adversity -- and heaven knows she had ... see all copies from $13.24! new only from $13.24! \| signed copies \| first editions
3	The Air We Breathe more books like this by Andrea Barrett add to wishlist The National Book Award-winning author of "Ship Fever" delivers her eagerly anticipated new novel, set in 1916, in an isolated town in the Adirondacks, far from the war raging in Europe. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	The Forgotten Plague: How the Battle Against Tuberculosis Was Won - And Lost more books like this by Frank Ryan add to wishlist Ryan, a physician, offers a history of the cure for tuberculosis, including accounts of the people and scientists involved. The final chapter spells out a renewed threat in the congruence of AIDS and tuberculosis. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.82! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Bargaining for Life: A Social History of Tuberculosis, 1876-1938 more books like this by Barbara Bates add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $11.50! new only from $22.71! \| first editions
6	Living in the Shadow of Death: Tuberculosis and the Social Experience of Illness in American History more books like this by Sheila M Rothman add to wishlist Before AIDS, few Americans though much about the possibility that they might contract a disease that would inexorably weaken them and dramatically shorten their lives, but for much of American history, most families faced such a catastrophe. A multi-generational social history of a disease now making an alarming comeback, this book spans 150 years ... see all copies from $3.10! signed copies \| first editions
7	Food for the Dead: On the Trail of New England's Vampires more books like this by Michael E Bell add to wishlist Forget Bela Lugosi's Count Dracula. In nineteenth-century New England another sort of vampire was relentlessly ravishing the populace, or so it was believed by many rural communities suffering the plague of tuberculosis. Indeed, as this fascinating book shows, the vampire of folk superstition figures significantly in the attempt of early ... see all copies from $6.59! new only from $11.90! \| signed copies \| first editions
8	The white plague; tuberculosis, man, and society more books like this by René J. Dubos, Jean Dubos add to wishlist see all copies from $2.92! new only from $21.84! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	The White Death: A History of Tuberculosis more books like this by Dr. Thomas Dormandy add to wishlist In this scholarly but accessible work, a pathologist provides a medical history of tuberculosis and surveys the personal and cultural repercussions of this devastating, widespread disease. Includes illustrations. see all copies from $13.51! new only from $70.00!
10	Fevered Lives: Tuberculosis in American Culture Since 1870 more books like this by Katherine Ott add to wishlist Consider two polar images of the same medical condition: the pale and fragile Camille ensconced on a chaise in a Victorian parlour, 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, ... see all copies from $3.80! new only from $99.00! \| first editions
11	The Making of a Social Disease: Tuberculosis in Nineteenth-Century France more books like this by Professor David S Barnes add to wishlist In this study of popular and scientific responses to tuberculosis in 19th-century France, the author provides a historical perspective on a disease that is making an alarming comeback in the United States and Europe. Barnes argues that French perceptions of the disease - ranging from the early romantic image of a consumptive woman to the later ... see all copies from $3.00! new only from $70.45! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12	Los adioses more books like this by Juan Carlos Onetti add to wishlist A masterful novel about the multiple powers of writing. A man arrives at a mountainside where tuberculosis infected people go to get cured. Very firmly, he refuses to assume that life and feeling of sanatorium that impregnates the entire city... His only livelihood is the two letters that he receives on a regular basis and that serve as his only ... see all copies from $4.16! new only from $8.69! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Clinical tuberculosis more books like this by P D Davies (Editor) add to wishlist Tuberculosis is currently increasing in both the developed and developing world. It is often related to HIV prevalence, and the increasing problem of multi-drug resistant disease is becoming evident. Ease of travel and continuing high rates of tuberculosis in the developed world has made tuberculosis the potential problem of all health care ... see all copies from $16.00! new only from $70.94! \| first editions
14 view cover	Timebomb: The Global Epidemic of Multi-Drug Resistant Tuberculosis more books like this by Lee B Reichman, M.D., M.P.H., Janice Hopkins Tanne add to wishlist Timebomb is the story of multi-drug resistant diseases - the latest scourge to hit medicine. It discusses the surrounding issues using multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR TB). Timebomb explores MDR TB through personal stories and anecdotes. see all copies from $1.99! first editions
15 view cover	Virgin River more books like this by Richard S Wheeler add to wishlist In the 16th novel in Wheeler's long-running series about Barnaby Skye--the British seaman who carves out an amazing life for himself in the North American Wilderness--the famed mountain man takes a party of young people to the southwestern desert where they hope to be healed. see all copies from $2.39! new only from $2.95! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Tuberculosis more books like this by William N Rom (Editor), Stuart M Garay (Editor) add to wishlist This comprehensive clinical reference is edited by experts from the NYU-Bellevue Chest Service, which through its influence in tuberculosis care and education has been an integral part of the formation of the entire specialty of pulmonary medicine. The book draws on this extensive experience to present an authoritative account of the history, ... see all copies from $5.75! new only from $34.12! \| SVS
17 view cover	Clinical Imaging of Non-Pulmonary Tuberculosis more books like this by Francis McGuinness add to wishlist The book provides an overview of the imaging methods in non-pulmonary tuberculosis including recent technical developments. It is backed by a wide range of illustrations. Tuberculosis of the central nervous system, spine, bones and joints, alimentary and renal tracts are covered in detail, as well as tuberculosis in the paediatric age group and in ... see all copies from $51.88! new only from $55.00! \| first editions
18 view cover	Contagion and Confinement: Controlling Tuberculosis Along the Skid Road more books like this by Barron H Lerner, M.D., Barron H Lemer add to wishlist Historians of tuberculosis have generally focused on the sanatorium era of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, losing interest in the disease with the discovery of curative antibiotics in the 1940s. But the author of this work argues that the availability of drugs actually highlighted the complex social problems that predisposed people to ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.89! \| signed copies \| first editions
19 view cover	Tuberculosis more books like this by Diane Yancey add to wishlist According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), nearly one-third of the world's population is infected with Tuberculosis (TB), which kills almost 2 million people per year. TB causes more deaths than any other infectious agent in the world. In the mid-1980s, a resurgence of outbreaks in the United States brought renewed ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.99! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Notes on an Emergency: A Journal of Recovery more books like this by Elizabeth Lionie Simpson add to wishlist This challenging, probing work about a woman's recovery from tubercular meningitis is both an intellectual and intensely personal exploration of the unconscious, the mental state of nothingness, identity, existentialism, medicine, religion, and most especially, love. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $14.90! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Tuberculosis and Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Infections more books like this by David Schlossberg, Richard Zorab (Editor) add to wishlist Here's the new, updated 4th edition of this comprehensive, clinically oriented reference on tuberculosis and non-tuberculosis mycobacterial infections. It thoroughly covers everything from the immunologic and microbiologic basis of tuberculosis, through its pathophysiology and varied clinical presentations to effective diagnosis and therapy. see all copies from $61.90! new only from $68.92!
22 view cover	Disease and Class: Tuberculosis and the Shaping of Modern North American Society more books like this by Georgina D Feldberg add to wishlist Until a decade ago, the conquest of tuberculosis seemed one of the great triumphs of modern medicine. The resurgence of TB in the wake of AIDS has to be understood, Georgina Feldberg argues, in the context of decisions the U.S. Public Health Service made, beginning in the 1930s, to prevent TB through improved hygiene and long-term treatment with ... see all copies from $9.80! new only from $12.85! \| first editions \| SVS
23	Atlas of Chest Infections more books like this by Hodson add to wishlist A diagnostic atlas of infections of the chest covering all the common infections and illustrated with radiographs and photographs. Topics covered include bacterial pneumonias, tuberculosis, infection by actinomycetes, fungi and protozoa, and differential diagnosis and treatment. see all copies from $7.96! new only from $9.95! \| first editions
24 view cover	Tuberculosis: An Interdisciplinary Persp more books like this by Porter John D H (Editor), John M Grange (Editor) add to wishlist The fact that the World Health Organization has declared tuberculosis a "global emergency" indicates the serious inadequacy of the ways in which the control methods at our disposal are used. International agencies are increasingly aware of the importance of the numerous factors other than the design and efficacy of therapeutic drug regimens. This ... see all copies from $49.54! new only from $51.00!
25 view cover	Pathogenesis of Human Pulmonary Turberculosis: Insights from the Rabbit Model more books like this by Arthur M Dannenberg add to wishlist This book provides in-depth insights into the pathogenesis of human tuberculosis and can serve as both a guide for future research and for the treatment of the disease. It covers the seminal work of Max B. Lurie in the rabbit model of tuberculosis, and the work of the author, who continued to research using the rabbit model after Lurie's death in ... see all copies from $30.56! new only from $137.60!

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