Healing Tuberculosis in the Woods: Medicine and Science at the End of the Nineteenth Century

by David L. Ellison

In 1882, Robert Koch discovered the TB bacillus, signaling a redirection of medical thinking from the trial and error guesswork of individual experience toward medical care based upon science. Professor Ellison uses the career of Edward Livingston Trudeau (1848-1915), a recognized leader in the American crusade against tuberculosis, to examine the development of medical science as a human process.

Ellison asks how the germ theory influenced...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313290059
• ISBN13: 9780313290053
• Release Date: September 1994
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.6"