Author: BRYDER, LINDA
Title: Below the magic mountain : a social history of tuberculosis in twentieth-century Britain / Linda Bryder
Description: Oxford [Oxfordshire] New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press 1988. First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight. bright. clean and especially sharp-cornered.Provenance; from the library of the Birmingham Medical Institute with its presentation bookplate. being presented by the Birmingham Hospital Saturday Fund. Series; Oxford historical monographs. Physical description; xiv. 298 pages : illustrations. map ; 23 cm. Notes; Includes index. Bibliography: p. [267]-286. Contents; List of illustrations. figures. tables. Abbreviations. Introduction. A national problem (1898-1918); 'pickaxe cure for consumptives'; the national tuberculosis service (1918-1939); causal factors in tuberculosis; fighting infection; work versus collapse theory; the patient's view; tuberculosis and the state. 1939 and beyond. Bibliography. Index. Summary; Abstract: This examines the rise of the anti-tuberculosis movement in Britain. and the development of a new public health service and medical specialism. Subjects; Tuberculosis — Great Britain — History — 20th century. Tuberculosis — history — Great Britain. Medicine. Illness. Tuberculosis — History — 20th century — Great Britain. Tuberculosis — Great Britain — History. Tuberculosis — History. Great Britain — Man — Tuberculosis — (1900-1985). man - Great Britain - (1900-1985) — tuberculosis. man — tuberculosis. tuberculosis. infectious diseases. history of medicine. Respiratory medicine ; Health systems & services ; History of medicine. Medical / History. Medical / Diseases. History / Europe / Great Britain / General. Medical / Public Health. Genre; Student Collection. ISBN: 019822947X. Weight in Kg appr.:

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