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Volume 332:476 February 16, 1995 Number 7
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Living in the Shadow of Death: Tuberculosis and the social experience of illness in American history

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By Sheila M. Rothman. 319 pp. New York, BasicBooks, 1994. $25. ISBN 0-465-03002-5.

Sheila Rothman's new book is an important contribution to the growing body of scholarly literature devoted to an understanding of the history of medicine from the patient's perspective. With an approach that is self-consciously interdisciplinary — incorporating medical anthropology and literary analysis, as well as medical history — Rothman develops "illness narratives" to explore patients' experiences with tuberculosis. Drawn from diaries and personal correspondence, these narratives are finely detailed descriptions of the lives of individual patients, tracing how the experience of illness is shaped by the interplay of medical, social, religious, and cultural forces.

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