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

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McMillen, Christian W., 1969-
Published
New Haven : Yale University Press, [2015]
Copyright Date
©2015
Physical Description
1 online resource (xii, 388 pages) : illustrations, maps
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Contents
Part 1: Discovery 1900-1945. The rise of race ; The fall of race -- Part 2: Control, 1935-1975. The challenge of TB ; 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 -- Part 3: Failure, 1975 to the present. 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 TB -- Conclusion.
Summary
"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 McMillen 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.";Publisher description.
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ISBN
9780300213485 (electronic bk.)
0300213484 (electronic bk.)
9780300190298 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0300190298 (cloth ; alk. paper)
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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