Spitting Blood: The History of Tuberculosis

by Helen Bynum

Book Overview

Tuberculosis is characterized as a social disease and few have been more inextricably linked with human history. There is evidence from the archaeological record that Mycobacterium tuberculosis and its human hosts have been together for a very long time. The very mention of tuberculosis brings to mind romantic images of great literary figures pouring out their souls in creative works as their bodies were being decimated by consumption. It is a disease...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198727518
• ISBN13: 9780198727514
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.1" x 7.6"