Description |
viii, 300 pages ; 22 cm |
Summary |
Traces the history of tuberculosis from the slums of nineteenth-century New York to modern Mumbai, showing how the gradual scientific understanding of TB allowed it to be controlled and cured in the West, but not in poorer nations, and examines how a new, agressive, and drug-resistant strain of TB has taken over. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographic references (pages 263-280) and index. |
Subject |
Tuberculosis -- History.
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Diseases and history.
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ISBN |
9781541768468 hc. |
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