Discovering Tuberculosis: A Global History, 1900 to the Present (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780300190298)

Tuberculosis is one of the world's deadliest infectious diseases, killing nearly two million people every year--more now than at any other time in history. While the developed world has nearly forgotten about TB, it continues to wreak havoc across much of the globe. In this interdisciplinary study of global efforts to control TB, Christian McMillen examines the disease's remarkable staying power by offering a probing look at key locations, developments, ideas, and medical successes and failures since 1900. He explores TB and race in east Africa, in South Africa, and on Native American reservations in the first half of the twentieth century, investigates the unsuccessful search for a vaccine, uncovers the origins of drug-resistant tuberculosis in Kenya and elsewhere in the decades following World War II, and details the tragic story of the resurgence of TB in the era of HIV/AIDS. Discovering Tuberculosis explains why controlling TB has been, and continues to be, so difficult.

Author: Christian W. McMillen
ISBN-10: 0300190298
ISBN-13: 9780300190298
Publisher: Yale University Press
Language: English
Published: 06/30/2015
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 9.50h x 6.40w x 1.00d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 05/15/2015 pg. 99
Booklist 06/01/2015 pg. 18
Choice 12/01/2015