Primitive Tuberculosis
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چکیده
The author, who has lately been David Davies Professor of Tuberculosis, Welsh National Medical School, and whose work on the epidemiology of tuberculosis is well known, has assembled in this extremely interesting book, not only his first-hand knowledge about tuberculosis in Europe, Egypt, Africa and Burma, but also extensive references on the subject from other countries. The title of the book refers to tuberculosis among (primitive' communities or communities 1 which continue to live in their old tribal tradition, to employ primitive, instead of modern methods, in their pastoral, agricultural or military occupations, to retain their native customs as to property, marriage, education, food and barter, law, order and discipline, habitations and " taboos" costume and language, as opposed to the adoption, from foreigners, of the weapons, machinery, coinage, religion, social outlook and occupations of modern civilization'. This, in fact, refers to isolated and non-industrialized communities. It is well known that, with increasing industrialization and wealth, the standard of living improves and with improved communications the differences between isolated and urban communities fade. Well-isolated communities like the Central Africans and the aboriginal tribes in India may come under the connotation of ' primitive' communities, but it will not be apt to say the same thing with regard to a large part of China and India where tuberculosis has been prevalent in crowded communities for many centuries, although the introduction of the machine age from the West has intensified the complexity of the picture. The book will be of very great interest to all tuberculosis workers, particularly those dealing with tropical countries and isolated communities. The literature on
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دوره 76 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1941