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Author Krishnan, Vidya, author.

Title Phantom plague : how tuberculosis shaped history / Vidya Krishnan.

Edition First edition.
Publication Info. New York : PublicAffairs, 2022.
1 hold on first copy returned of 1 copy
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b2185339~S1
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 Nichols Adult Nonfiction  614.542 KRI    AVAILABLE
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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.
Diseases and history.
ISBN 9781541768468 hc.
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