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2 de oct. de 2007 · The plague is the work of a solitary individual who calls himself the Madman. As government security forces feverishly hunt for the renegade scientist, he wanders incognito through a world that will never be the same. Society, religion, and morality are all irrevocably transformed by the White Plague. Print length. 448 pages.
in his classic work The White Plague: Tuberculosis, Man, and Society. The history of tuberculosis is one of scientific, medical, social, and political failure. Although modern short-course treatment for tuberculosis is among the most effective and inexpensive of treatments for any life-threatening disease, tuberculosis remains one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide.
It was popularly known as ‘the White Plague,’ due to the drained complexion of its sufferers, and was the deadliest disease affecting the United States and Europe through the 1800s and early 1900s. John and Caroline were by no means alone in their illness: standard data indicates tuberculosis was responsible for nearly half of the deaths of ...
17 de sept. de 2019 · In terms of style, The White Plague has much in common with Dune. It’s moody, complex, deeply psychological, political and apocalyptic, and certainly bears little resemblance to the potato-chippy quick snacks that most contemporary thrillers are. The White Plague is long and thought-provoking, delving into morality and the meaning of insanity.
The White Plague is a marvelous and terrifyingly plausible blend of fiction and visionary theme. It tells of one man's revenge, of the man watching from the window who is pushed over the edge of sanity by the senseless murder of his family and who, reappearing several months later as the so-called Madman, unleashes a terrible vengeance upon the ...
The White Plague by Frank Herbert. When an IRA terrorist car bomb explodes, the wife and children of molecular biologist John Roe O'Neill are indiscriminately killed on May 20, 1996. Driven halfway insane by loss, his mind fragments into several personalities that carry out his plan for him.
21 de sept. de 1982 · The White Plague. Hardcover – September 21, 1982. by Frank Herbert (Author) 4.2 358 ratings. See all formats and editions. When his wife and children are killed by a terrorist bomb in Dublin an Irish-American molecular biologist unleashes a genetically carried plague. Length.
