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

Fevered Lives: Tuberculosis in American Culture Since 1870

Katherine Ott

296 pages first pub 1996 (view editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative medium-paced
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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 s...

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