Asthma : the biography
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Asthma : the biography
Oxford University Press, 2009
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Biographies of disease
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"Biographies of disease"--On jacket
Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-239) and index
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内容説明
Asthma is a familiar and growing disease today, but its story goes back to the ancient world, as we know from accounts in ancient texts from China, India, Greece and Rome. It was treated with acupuncture and Ayurveda. As Western medicine developed, the nature of asthma became clearer, and its basis in the lungs recognized. But cultural perceptions of the disease shifted too. By the 18th century, with recognition that the disease was centred on the lungs, the idea of environmental triggers such as dust and smoke first became recognized. And with that, asthma also became identified as a disease of artisans. Things changed again in the 19th century, as medical understanding grew with the advent of the stethoscope and new techniques such as percussion of the chest. New treatments included the promotion of mountain spas, for asthma now rose in social status, and became associated with the upper classes and the literati. For Marcel Proust and Charles Dickens, asthma shaped their lives and their creativ
目次
- Prologue
- 1. Classical asthma
- 2. The anatomy of asthma
- 3. Asthma and allergy
- 4. Modern asthma
- Epilogue
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