Binding: Hardcover
Description: 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 Mc Millen 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.
Title: Discovering Tuberculosis A Global History 1900 To The Present
Author(s): Mcmillen Christian W.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Barcode: 9780300190298
Pages: 352 Pages, 4 B-W Illus.
Publication Date: 6/30/2015
Category: Infectious & Contagious Diseases