Asthma: The Biography

by Mark Jackson and Mark Jackson

Book Overview

Asthma is a familiar and growing disease today, but its story goes back to the ancient world, as we know from accounts in ancient texts from China, India, Greece and Rome. It was treated with acupuncture and Ayurveda. As Western medicine developed, the nature of asthma became clearer, and its basis in the lungs recognized. But cultural perceptions of the disease shifted too. By the 18th century, with recognition that the disease was centred on the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199237956
• ISBN13: 9780199237951
• Release Date: December 2009
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 249 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.3" x 7.8"