The victims of tuberculosis (usually known as consumption) included not only Keats, The Brontės, Chopin and Chekhov, but members of almost every family. It was a killer on a huge scale.
The White Death is an outstanding history of tuberculosis. Thomas Dormandy's engrossing account of the search for a cure is complemented by a description of its complex natural history and by portraits of individual sufferers, including writers, artists, and musicians, whose lives and work were shaped (and often tragically curtailed) by the disease. But, tuberculosis is not just a disease of the past. In many parts of the world it is still a bigger killer than AIDS, while in America and Europe drug-resistant strains threaten its resurgence.
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Thomas Dormandy, a physician and writer, is the author of Old Masters: Great Artists in Old Age.
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