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Discovering tuberculosis : a global history, 1900 to the present / Christian W. McMillen.

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"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 interdisciplin...

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Main Author: McMillen, Christian W., 1969- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2015]
Subjects:
Tuberculosis, Pulmonary > history.
History, 20th Century.
History, 21st Century.
Tuberculosis Vaccines > history.
Tuberculosis, Pulmonary > prevention & control.
Tuberculosis vaccines > History.
Tuberculosis > History.
Tuberculosis > Prevention.
Table of Contents:
  • The rise of race
  • The fall of race
  • The challenge of tuberculosis
  • Preventing TB : American Indians and the BCG vaccine
  • BCG goes global
  • Questioning BCG : mass resistance in India
  • Faith, failure, and the BCG vaccine
  • Curing TB : antibiotics, drug resistance, and compliance in Kenya
  • The lost promise of antibiotics
  • The making of the TB/HIV pandemic
  • Prevention, cure, and the search for the cheapest solution
  • Prevention vs. cure : isoniazid prophylaxis therapy, dots, and the neglect of HIV/TB and multi-drug resistant tuberculosis.

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