Living in the Shadow of Death: Tuberculosis and the Social Experience of Illness in American History by Sheila M. Rothman

Living in the Shadow of Death: Tuberculosis and the Social Experience of Illness in American History

Sheila M. Rothman

332 pages first pub 1994 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging emotional informative slow-paced
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Tuberculosis—once the cause of as many as one in five deaths in the U.S.—crossed all boundaries of class and gender, but the methods of treatment for men and women differed radically. While men were encouraged to go out to sea or to the open count...

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