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26
/100
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Readers
34/100Critics
17/100Scholars
Author:
Vidya Krishnan
Publisher:
PublicAffairs
Date:
February 1, 2022
A medical science journalist takes a look at one of the biggest killers among human diseases. In a narrative spanning centuries, Krishnan shows how superstition and folk-remedies made way for scientific understanding of TB, such that it was controlled and cured in the West while remaining a major threat in less-developed nations.
What The Reviewers Say
We meet giants in the history of germs.
... as Ms. Krishnan vividly reminds us, TB is not a disease of the past.
A penetrating social history.
... a wide-ranging history of tuberculosis and a stark warning.
