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