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TB has re-emerged as a global killer in the 21st
century.
Icons of Europe, a partner of WHO's Stop TB Partnership,
use the arts and cultural research for
TB advocacy.
The revenue of Chopin and The.Swedish
Nightingale (2003)
is donated to the TB fight >>
£20 plus shipping. |
Men and women apparently sick with 'consumption'
(TB)
at a British ward in the 19th century.
Jenny Lind, the Swedish Nightingale raised funds for the Brompton Hospital for Consumption and
Diseases of the Chest in 1848. Chopin died of TB in 1849.
Awarded the Nobel Price in Medicine 1905,
Robert Koch, the German physician and scientist, presented
his discovery of the bacterium that causes tuberculosis (TB)
in 1882 on the evening of March 24 (now World TB Day).
"He began by reminding the audience of terrifying statistics
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Investing in people and
national security
An editorial of the International Herald Tribune "Extreme
tuberculosis" (14 September 2006) concluded “Generosity is needed to fix
it”.
Icons of Europe countered in a letter to the IHT/NYT editor:
"It is not
a matter of charity and a patch-up, but about a global
objective of investing in people and the security of nations." |
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"In Europe, the revolutions of the 19th century were to a
large extent driven by fury over political oppression and despair over
the poor living conditions of the growing urban centres. These
conditions bred public health scourges such as tuberculosis and
cholera." - Source: page 66 of Chopin and The Swedish Nightingale (Icons of Europe,
2003).² |
Edvard Munch: "The Sick Child I", 1896
lithograph, 42 cm x 56.5 cm
Munch's sister Sophie died of TB at 16
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The Munch Museum
Paganini, Weber, Keats, Chopin, Tocqueville,
Kafka, Orwell and many
other Icons died also early in their life
of tuberculosis. |
Miners in Southern Africa "have
[today] some of the
highest rates of
TB / HIV
in the world". A tragic signal in the debate on Africa's development - oil & mining
vs.
education health agriculture SME.² |
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Jenny Lind, the Swedish Nightingale, singing at Chopin's deathbed in
October 1849 (Barrias 1883).
Ljiljana Jovanovic, Icons drama,
Act 5, Warsaw >>
World TB Day: Toronto 2005,
New York 2008 |
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In Hans Christian Andersen's story The Nightingale,
the Chinese emperor saw 'Death sitting on his chest'. Icons
of E
essay: "Did the emperor
suffer from TB?" |
¹ Stanford University
A musicology PhD candidate at
Stanford University,
California invited in June 2012 Icons of Europe to provide information on
the approach of using the arts and cultural
research in the TB fight.
Links
- 24-hr
WTBD concert
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TB in popular culture
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TB in history and art |
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