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EBOOK Asthma: The Biography
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Wydawnictwo: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780191622823
EAN: F76B985BEB
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Stron: 272
Data wydania: 2009
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Asthma is a familiar and growing disease today, but its story goes back to the        ancient world, as we know from accounts in ancient texts from China, India, Greece        and Rome. It was treated with acupuncture and Ayurveda.As Western medicine        developed, the nature of asthma became clearer, and its basis in the lungs        recognized. But cultural perceptions of the disease shifted too. By the 18th        century, with recognition that the disease was centred on the lungs, the idea of        environmental triggers such as dust and smoke first became recognized. And with        that, asthma also became identified as a disease of artisans. Things changed again        in the 19th century, as medical understanding grew with the advent of thestethoscope        and new techniques such as percussion of the chest. New treatments included the        promotion of mountain spas, for asthma now rose in social status, and became        associated with the upper classes and the literati. For Marcel Proust and Charles        Dickens, asthma shaped their lives and their creativity.From early in the 20th        century, the idea of asthma as an allergic disease became established, and the        search for environmental causes was on. Hay fever was closely linked, and        pharmaceutical companies began to make antihistamines, anti-inflammatories and        bronchodilators. Asthma sufferers were warned to beware of pets, simplify their        furnishings, and take holidays by the sea far from pollens. But a newly emerging        concept was that attacks could be triggered by stress and psychological factors.With        musicians such as Schoenberg and Berg as celebrity sufferers, the idea of asthma as        an lite disease persisted.In recent years, attitudes have changed again,        as incidences of asthma grew dramatically across the world, especially among the        young. The disease has now become closely linked to modern lifestyles and the many        products of civilization. The battle against house-dust mites began, and whole new        lines of anti-allergenic products and foods were launched - asthma has proved highly        lucrative over the years. But the disease has remained fashionable, even becoming        the theme of several pop songs.Asthma: the biography is part of the Oxford series,        Biographies of Diseases, edited by William and Helen Bynum. In each individual        volume an expert historian of medicine tells the story of a particular disease or        condition throughout history - not only in terms of growing medical understanding of        its nature and cure, but also shifting social and cultural attitudes, and changes in        the meaning of the name of the disease itself.

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