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Though rigorously scientific in his approach, norman f. Awards edit the white plague was nominated for a locus award for best science fiction novel in 1983, but lost to isaac asimovs novel foundations edge. The white plague by frank herbert overdrive rakuten. Robin cook, robert ludlum, james rollins are just some of the names that come to mind when im about to pick up a book. The book implies near the end that polyandry will necessarily become mandatory, potentially giving women involved in such marriages enhanced power. 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 anda much more controversial idea when this book first appeared forty years agothat the progress of medical science had very little to do with the marked decline in tuberculosis in the twentieth century.
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