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Krishnan, Vidya.
Phantom Plague
[Libby] :
How Tuberculosis Shaped History.
PublicAffairs,
2022.
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History.
Medical.
Nonfiction.
HTML:<b>Harvard Public Health Magazine, </b><b>Best Public Health Books and Journalism of 2022</b><br /> <b>The definitive social history of tuberculosis, from its origins as a haunting mystery to its modern reemergence that now threatens populations around the world.</b><br /> It killed novelist George Orwell, Eleanor Roosevelt, and millions of others – rich and poor. Desmond Tutu, Amitabh Bachchan, and Nelson Mandela survived it, just.  For centuries, tuberculosis has ravaged cities and plagued the human body. <br /> In  <i>Phantom Plague</i>, Vidya Krishnan, traces the history of tuberculosis from the slums of 19th-century New York to modern Mumbai. 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. <br /> The cure was never available to black and brown nations. And the tuberculosis bacillus showed a remarkable ability to adapt – so that at the very moment it could have been extinguished as a threat to humanity, it found a way back, aided by authoritarian government, toxic kindness of philanthropists, science denialism and medical apartheid.<br /> Krishnan’s original reporting paints a granular portrait of the post-antibiotic era as a new, aggressive, drug resistant strain of TB takes over. <i>Phantom Plague</i> is an urgent, riveting and fascinating narrative that deftly exposes the weakest links in our battle against this ancient foe. .
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