Discovering Tuberculosis
Categories: History, Science & Math
Discovering Tuberculosis (2015) by historian Christian W. McMillen asks why tuberculosis, a curable disease, kept killing on a vast scale through the twentieth century and beyond. McMillen traces efforts to control the disease since 1900 in east and South Africa, India and on Native American reservations. He examines theories linking TB to race, the long search for an effective vaccine, the rise of drug-resistant strains after World War II and the disease's resurgence alongside HIV/AIDS.
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