Table of Contents

Foreword by David Mechanic
Introductory Essay: Dubos and Tuberculosis, Master Teachers by Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz
To Our Sources
Introduction to the First Edition
Part One: The White Plague in the Nineteenth Century
I The Captain of All the Men of Death
II Death Warrant for Keats
III Flight from the North Winds
IV Contagion and Heredity
V Consumption and the Romantic Age
Part Two: The Causes of Tuberculosis
VI Phthisis, Consumption and Tubercles
VII Percussion, Auscultation and the Unitarian Theory
VIII The Germ Theory of Tuberculosis
IX Infection and Disease
Part Three: Cure and Prevention of Tuberculosis
X The Evaluation of Therapeutic Procedures
XI Treatment and Natural Resistance
XII Drugs, Vaccines and Public Health Measures
XIII Healthy Living and Sanatoria
Part Four: Tuberculosis and Society
XIV The Evolution of Epidemics
XV Tuberculosis and Industrial Civilization
XVI Tuberculosis and Social Technology
Appendices
Bibliography and Notes
Index

About the Author

RENE DUBOS (1901-1981) was a distinguished microbiologist and commentator on the ecology of disease. Dubos’s other books include a standard biography of Louis Pasteur and several influential books on the environmental aspects of public health. His book Mirage of Health has been reprinted by Rutgers University Press. His wife, Jean Dubos–who had suffered from tuberculosis herself–collaborated on The White Plague.