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 XNUMXth century, consumption meant a death sentence, spared neither the poor, nor the rich, nor the unknown, nor the famous. But the attitude towards this disease in society is constantly changing. Ulrike Moser's book shows the tragic stages of these changes: consumption from an "exalted" disease that affects geniuses and angelic girls, turns into a source of profit for mountain resorts, and then into an insidious ulcer of the city's lower classes. In the Third Reich, Nazi postulates of degeneration and racial purity robbed tuberculosis patients of all 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 against the backdrop of more “relevant” epidemics. Ulrike Moser is a German historian, contributor to the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and Die Woche.

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