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Phantom Plague
How Tuberculosis Shaped History
Buch von Vidya Krishnan
Sprache: Englisch

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The 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. Desmond Tutu, Amitabh Bachchan, and Nelson Mandela survived it, just. 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. 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 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. Krishnan's original reporting paints a granular portrait of the post-antibiotic era as a new, aggressive, drug resistant strain of TB takes over. Phantom Plague is an urgent, riveting and fascinating narrative that deftly exposes the weakest links in our battle against this ancient foe.
The 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. Desmond Tutu, Amitabh Bachchan, and Nelson Mandela survived it, just. 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. 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 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. Krishnan's original reporting paints a granular portrait of the post-antibiotic era as a new, aggressive, drug resistant strain of TB takes over. Phantom Plague is an urgent, riveting and fascinating narrative that deftly exposes the weakest links in our battle against this ancient foe.
Über den Autor
Vidya Krishnan is an award-winning journalist who has been reporting on medical science for the last twenty years. She has written for the Atlantic, the LA Times, and The Caravan. She was a 2020–2021 Neiman Fellow at Harvard University.
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Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Fachbereich: Therapie
Genre: Medizin
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Buch
Seiten: 320
Inhalt: Gebunden
ISBN-13: 9781541768468
ISBN-10: 1541768469
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Krishnan, Vidya
Hersteller: PublicAffairs
Maße: 215 x 144 x 30 mm
Von/Mit: Vidya Krishnan
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.02.2022
Gewicht: 0,432 kg
preigu-id: 120298826
Über den Autor
Vidya Krishnan is an award-winning journalist who has been reporting on medical science for the last twenty years. She has written for the Atlantic, the LA Times, and The Caravan. She was a 2020–2021 Neiman Fellow at Harvard University.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Fachbereich: Therapie
Genre: Medizin
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Buch
Seiten: 320
Inhalt: Gebunden
ISBN-13: 9781541768468
ISBN-10: 1541768469
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Krishnan, Vidya
Hersteller: PublicAffairs
Maße: 215 x 144 x 30 mm
Von/Mit: Vidya Krishnan
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.02.2022
Gewicht: 0,432 kg
preigu-id: 120298826
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