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Tuberculosis Then and Now: Perspectives on the History of an Infectious Disease
ISBN: 9780773577046
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / McGill-Queen''s University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Tuberculosis; Tuberculosis -- History;

One-third of the world's population is currently infected with the TB bacillus and up to ten percent of these individuals will go on to develop tuberculosis. Today the disease is most prevalent in Africa and South Asia, but a century and a half ago it was the largest single cause of death in Europe and North America.

Flurin Condrau, professor of history of medicine at the University of Manchester, is an expert in the comparative history of infectious diseases, tuberculosis, and urban sanitary movements and is currently working on the history of patients as well as onFlurin Condrau, professor of history of medicine at the University of Manchester, is an expert in the comparative history of infectious diseases, tuberculosis, and urban sanitary movements and is currently working on the history of patients as well as on