In the white plague rene and jean dubos argue that the great increase of tuberculosis was intimately connected with the rise of an industrial urbanized society and a much more controversial idea when this book first appeared forty years ago that the progress of medical science had very little to do with the marked decline in tuberculosis in the twentieth century. Full text full text is available as a scanned copy of the original print version get a printable copy pdf file of the complete article 221k or click on a page image below to browse page by page. The white plague tuberculosis man and society dubos jean mechanic david rosenkrantz barbara gutmann 9780813512242 books amazonca. In the white plague rene and jean dubos argue that the great increase of tuberculosis was intimately connected with the rise of an industrial urbanized society and a much more controversial idea