Thirty years ago, Susan Sontag wrote, "Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship in the kingdom of the well and the kingdom of the sick ... Sooner or later each of us is obliged, at least for a spell, to identify ourselves as citizens of that other place." Now more than 133 million Americans live
Living in the shadow of death: Tuberculosis and the social experience of illness in American history
β Scribed by Margaret Humphreys
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1996
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 162 KB
- Volume
- 32
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0022-5061
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