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Catching breath : the making and unmaking of tuberculosis / Kathryn Lougheed.
Author
Lougheed, Kathryn
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
London, UK : Bloomsbury Sigma, 2017.
©2017
Description
272 pages ; 23 cm
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Firestone Library - Stacks
RC310 .L68 2017
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Subject(s)
Tuberculosis
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Tuberculosis
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History
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Antitubercular agents
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Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis
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Library of Congress genre(s)
Personal narratives
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Series
Bloomsbury sigma series
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Summary note
"Catching Breath--the story of one of the world's oldest diseases--looks at the hidden biology behind the interaction of Mycobacterium tuberculosis with its human host, and shows how drug resistance, the HIV epidemic, poverty and inequality work together to ensure that TB remains one of the most serious problems in world medicine."--Jacket flap
Notes
Includes index.
Contents
Introduction: I caught TB from my pet cat
Bringing the dead back to life
From moo to man and back again
Didn't we already cure it?
All that glitters
Thanks for the memories
The human universe
Huber the Tuber's 20-tuberculear sleep
Growing fat on the Atkins diet
Killing the unkillable
The drugs don't work
A barometer of inequality
Ratting out the missing 3 million
New drugs for bad bugs
Epilogue: TB continued.
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ISBN
9781472930330 ((hardback))
1472930339 ((hardback))
9781472930347 ((paperback))
1472930347 ((paperback))
OCLC
992994951
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