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Consumption: another history of German society

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Consumption: another history of German society
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Pulmonary tuberculosis, or consumption, has been a companion of mankind throughout its history. Until the 20th century, consumption meant a death sentence and spared neither the poor nor the rich, the obscure nor the famous. But the attitude towards this disease in society was constantly changing. Ulrike Moser's book shows the tragic stages of these changes: consumption turns from a "sublime" disease affecting geniuses and angel-like girls into a source of profit for mountain resorts, and then into a malignant plague of the urban underclass. In the Third Reich, Nazi postulates of degeneracy and racial purity denied tuberculosis patients any hope: they were killed en masse or subjected to cruel medical experiments. Despite the discovery of antibiotics, tuberculosis remains one of the most common causes of death today - and it is useful to remember this even in the face of more "current" epidemics. Ulrike Moser is a German historian and contributor to the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and Die Woche.
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