New York: Penguin. Full text Full text is available as a scanned copy of the original print version. So human an animal. Mirage of Health is a book of incredible balance, written with a scientist's mind and a philosopher's pen. New York: Scribner. 1959 Rene Dubos published a landmark book entitled "The Mirage of Health" in which he convincingly argued that the decline in mortality since 1850 was not primarily due to laboratory medicine; it was due to control of infectious disease as a result of sanitation and improvements in nutrition. With his book Mirage of Health (1959), Dubos toppled two illusions: the quest for perfect health and the conquest of disease. The coming plague: New emerging diseases in a world out of bal- ance. New York: Harper and Row. Garrett, L. (1997). Dubos, R. (1968). EMBED (for wordpress.com hosted blogs and archive.org item tags) Want more? “The viewpoint expressed in Mirage of Health has now become a dominant one in our general culture and encompasses much of current concern with improving lifestyles related to health and promoting greater health consciousness among the public. Mirage of Health . To the Editor:— This is a letter of protest about your printing in The Journal (177:907 [Sept. 30] 1961) an "endorsed quotation" entitled "Non-Hereditary Protective Reactions." Mirage of health: Utopias, progress and biological change. Topics: Human skin color, Human, Life Pages: 4 (1557 words) Published: October 29, 2006 "According to Lao-tzu and Taoist followers, joy and bliss were possible only in a world of primitive simplicity. Advanced embedding details, examples, and help! On its publication in … The publishers and chief editor, Dr. Ruth Nanda Anshen, with a distinguished board of editors, have added to their series of monographs, known as the "World Perspectives Series," one of the most important essays in our time—Rene Dubos' "Mirage of Health." Mirage of health : utopias, progress, and biological change Item Preview remove-circle Share or Embed This Item. Get a printable copy (PDF file) of the complete article (229K), or click on a page image below to browse page by page. No_Favorite. EMBED. The Pasteur biography was a commercial success and assured Dubos'popularity as an author of many other books for the general public. With Mirage of Health, Dubos became the leading medical scientist to oppose the current popular belief that infectious diseases could be conquered. Mirage of Health “According to Lao-tzu and Taoist followers, joy and bliss were possible only in a world of primitive simplicity. 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