Spitting Blood: The history of tuberculosis Hardcover – December 12, 2012
Author: Visit Amazon's Helen Bynum Page | Language: English | ISBN: 0199542058 | Format: PDF, EPUB
Spitting Blood: The history of tuberculosis – December 12, 2012
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Helen Bynum is a freelance historian of medicine and a former researcher for Wellcome. She is the author of Tropical Medicine in the 20th century. Together with Bill Bynum, they have edited the award winning Dictionary of Medical Biography (5 vols).
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Helen Bynum has written a book not only full of diverting asides but also of urgent importance. Richard Horton, Guardian
About the Author
Helen Bynum is a freelance historian of medicine and a former researcher for Wellcome. She is the author of Tropical Medicine in the 20th century. Together with Bill Bynum, they have edited the award winning Dictionary of Medical Biography (5 vols).
Download latest books on mediafire and other links compilation Spitting Blood: The history of tuberculosis Hardcover – December 12, 2012
- Hardcover: 256 pages
- Publisher: Oxford University Press; 1 edition (December 12, 2012)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0199542058
- ISBN-13: 978-0199542055
- Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 8 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #712,446 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
"The Emperor of All Maladies" (see my review on Amazon) was written by an incredibly gifted medical scientist and writer, and it established in my mind an impossibly high standard for any other history of disease. For me "Emperor" sat alongside Clio, the muse of history, high on the slopes of Mount Parnassus, never to be approached.
Yet I love medical history and so on I went, picking up many such new books and usually soon afterwards laying them down only partially read, especially those written by non-scientists and/or authors who could not write particularly well and were just cranking out books on hot subjects, books that would soon be forgotten.
Finally though, my wandering in the wilderness around Parnassus has been rewarded. "Spitting Blood" (surely there could have been a better title) may not actually sit right beside "Emperor" and Clio, but it is very high up there indeed. And if "Emperor" had never existed then "Spitting Blood" would be establishing its own very high standard of excellence (imagine Andy Roddick's career had Federer, Nadal, and Djokovic never existed).
Plus, "Spitting Blood" does something more, and unusual, and very, very important.
But before getting into that let's first evaluate "Spitting Blood" (ugh, there's that title again!) on a more fundamental level. There's no need here to recite what TB is or what a basic history of it needs to encompass. The vast majority of potential readers of "Spitting Blood" -- unless they think this book is a compilation of chain saw and axe murders -- already know at least a little about TB. Given TB's history and ubiquitousness, who doesn't?
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