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 interdisciplinary study...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	McMillen, Christian W., 1969- (Author)
Language:	English
Published:	New Haven : Yale University Press, [2015]
Subjects:	Tuberculosis vaccines > History. Tuberculosis > History. Tuberculosis > Prevention. Tuberculosis, Pulmonary > history. History, 20th Century. History, 21st Century. Tuberculosis Vaccines > history. Tuberculosis, Pulmonary > prevention & control. Tuberculosis. Tuberculosis vaccines. Tuberkulose. Prävention. History.
Genre:	History.
Physical Description:	xii, 338 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Format:	Book

Contents:

The rise of race
The fall of race
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
The making of the HIV/TB pandemic
Prevention, cure, and the search for the cheapest solution
Prevention versus cure : the neglect of HIV/TB and multidrug-resistant TB.