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by Vidya Krishnan| 2022| 0.9366| other

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<B>The definitive social history of tuberculosis, from its origins as a haunting mystery to its modern reemergence that now threatens populations around the world.</B><BR />It killed novelist George Orwell, Eleanor Roosevelt, and millions of others &#8211; rich and poor. Desmond Tutu, Amitabh Bachchan, and Nelson Mandela survived it, just. For centuries, tuberculosis has ravaged cities and plagued the human body. <BR />In <I>Phantom Plague</I>, Vidya Krishnan, traces the history of tuberculosis from the slums of 19th-century New York to modern Mumbai. In a narrative spanning century, Krishnan shows how superstition and folk-remedies, made way for scientific understanding of TB, such that it was controlled and cured in the West. <BR />The cure was never available to black and brown nations. And the tuberculosis bacillus showed a remarkable ability to adapt &#8211; so that at the very moment it could have been extinguished as a threat to humanity, it found a way back, aided by...

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Author:Vidya Krishnan
Publication Year:2022
ISBN:1541768469
Language:other
File Size:0.9366
Format:PDF
Price:FREE
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