a revised version of Linda Bryder's Oxford DPhil thesis. A superior thesis it must have been, based as it is on an impressive range of primary literature, supplemented by a well-chosen selection of interviews with individuals whose careers spanned the time when tuberculosis was still a serious problem in Britain.

• List of illustrations, figures, tables. Abbreviations. Introduction. A national problem 1898-1918; "pickaxe cure for consumptives"; the national tuberculosis service 1918-1939; causal factors in tuberculosis; fighting infection; work versus collapse theory; the patient's view; tuberculosis and the state, 1939 and beyond. Bibliography. Index.

a revised version of Linda Bryder's Oxford DPhil thesis. A superior thesis it must have been, based as it is on an impressive range of primary literature, supplemented by a well-chosen selection of interviews with individuals whose careers spanned the time when tuberculosis was still a serious problem in Britain.

• List of illustrations, figures, tables. Abbreviations. Introduction. A national problem 1898-1918; "pickaxe cure for consumptives"; the national tuberculosis service 1918-1939; causal factors in tuberculosis; fighting infection; work versus collapse theory; the patient's view; tuberculosis and the state, 1939 and beyond. Bibliography. Index.