Discovering Tuberculosis

A Global History, 1900 to the Present

Christian W. McMillen (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

352 Seiten

2015
Yale University Press (Verlag)
978-0-300-19029-8 (ISBN)

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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 of global efforts to control TB, Christian McMillen examines the disease’s remarkable staying power by offering a probing look at key locations, developments, ideas, and medical successes and failures since 1900. He explores TB and race in east Africa, in South Africa, and on Native American reservations in the first half of the twentieth century, investigates the unsuccessful search for a vaccine, uncovers the origins of drug-resistant tuberculosis in Kenya and elsewhere in the decades following World War II, and details the tragic story of the resurgence of TB in the era of HIV/AIDS. Discovering Tuberculosis explains why controlling TB has been, and continues to be, so difficult.

Christian W. McMillen is an associate professor of history at the University of Virginia. He is the author of Making Indian Law: The Hualapai Land Case and the Birth of Ethnohistory. He lives in Charlottesville, VA.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	24.8.2015
Zusatzinfo	4 b-w illus.
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 235 mm
Gewicht	721 g
Themenwelt	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Epidemiologie / Med. Biometrie
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Infektiologie / Immunologie
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Prävention / Gesundheitsförderung
ISBN-10	0-300-19029-8 / 0300190298
ISBN-13	978-0-300-19029-8 / 9780300190298
Zustand	Neuware