Times and Tides of Tuberculosis : Perceptions Revealed in Literature, Keats to Sontag

As tuberculosis became better understood scientifically over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, treatment of the disease changed for the better, and the attitudes of patients, the medical community, and society in general became more hopeful. Times and Tides of Tuberculosis illustrates these changing attitudes with the life stories and sample works of well-known fiction writers, dramatists, essayists, and poets who were well acquainted with the disease and who wrote about it eloquently. In addition to medical and social history, Times and Tides of Tuberculosis is a book of fascinating literary history. Book jacket.