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Asthma : the biography / Mark Jackson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jackson, Mark, 1959- author.
- Series:
- Biographies of disease (Oxford, England)
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Biographies of disease
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Asthma--History.
- Asthma.
- Asthma--history.
- Medical Subjects:
- Asthma--history.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (262 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The story of asthma stretches from antiquity to the present day, and perceptions of the disease have shifted with time. Mark Jackson describes not only the growing medical understanding of asthma, but shifting cultural views, from artisans' disease to Proust's elegant suffering.
- Contents:
- Classical asthma
- Asthma redefined
- Asthma, allergy, and the mind
- Asthma in the modern world.
- Notes:
- Formerly CIP.
- Previously issued in print: 2009.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-383-03704-3
- 0-19-162282-6
- 1-282-38340-X
- 9786612383403
- 0-19-157159-8
- OCLC:
- 505429931
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