Fevered Lives: Tuberculosis in American Culture Since 1870, by Katherine Ott

Fevered Lives: Tuberculosis in American Culture Since 1870,

Katherine Ott

242 pages paperback 1996

3 editions

nonfiction history challenging informative medium-paced
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What we understand today as pulmonary tuberculosis would have been largely unintelligible to a physician or patient in the late nineteenth century. Although medically the two terms described the same disease of the lungs, Ott shows that "tuberculo...

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