Sheila M Rothman, Living in the shadow of death: tuberculosis and the social experience of illness in American history, New York, BasicBooks, 1994 (distributed by HarperCollins in the UK), pp. xi, 319, £19.95 (0465-03002-5).

Roy Porter

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Sheila M Rothman, Living in the shadow of death: tuberculosis and the social experience of illness in American history, New York, BasicBooks, 1994 (distributed by HarperCollins in the UK), pp. xi, 319, £19.95 (0465-03002-5).

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Information: Medical History , Volume 39 , Issue 3 , July 1995 , pp. 383 - 384

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Sheila M Rothman, Living in the shadow of death: tuberculosis and the social experience of illness in American history, New York, BasicBooks, 1994 (distributed by HarperCollins in the UK), pp. xi, 319, £19.95 (0465-03002-5).

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