Phantom Plague av Vidya Krishnan

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<B>Harvard Public Health Magazine, </B><B>Best Public Health Books and Journalism of 2022</B><BR/><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/><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/><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/><BR/> The cure was never available to black and brown nations. And the tuberculosis bacillus showed a remarka