Phantom Plague: How Tuberculosis Shaped History Krishnan Vidya
Phantom Plague: How Tuberculosis Shaped History Krishnan Vidya Harvard Public Health Magazine, Best Public Health Books and Journalism of 2022The definitive social history of tuberculosis, from its…
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Phantom Plague: How Tuberculosis Shaped History Krishnan Vidya
Harvard Public Health Magazine, Best Public Health Books and Journalism of 2022The definitive social history of tuberculosis, from its origins as a haunting mystery to its modern reemergence that now threatens populations around the world.It killed novelist George Orwell, Eleanor Roosevelt, and millions of others - rich and poor. For centuries, tuberculosis has ravaged cities and plagued the human body.In Phantom Plague, Vidya Krishnan, traces the history of tuberculosis from the slums of 19th-century New York to modern Mumbai. Desmond Tutu, Amitabh Bachchan, and Nelson Mandela survived it, just.
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.The cure was never available to black and brown nations. And the
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