Asthma: The Biography

by Mark Jackson and Mark Jackson

Book Overview

Asthma has now become closely linked to modern lifestyles and the many products of civilization, but its story goes back to antiquity, and its famous sufferers are believed to have included Charles Dickens, Beethoven, Che Guevara, and Benjamin Disraeli. Beginning with the case history of one of its most celebrated victims, Marcel Proust, Mark Jackson describes the growing medical understanding of asthma over many centuries.

• 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"