{"product_id":"phantom-plague-how-tuberculosis-shaped-history-9781541768468","title":"Phantom Plague: How Tuberculosis Shaped History","description":"\u003cb\u003eHarvard Public Health Magazine, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eBest Public Health Books and Journalism of 2022\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe definitive social history of tuberculosis, from its origins as a haunting mystery to its modern reemergence that now threatens populations around the world.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In \u003ci\u003ePhantom Plague\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Krishnan's original reporting paints a granular portrait of the post-antibiotic era as a new, aggressive, drug resistant strain of TB takes over. \u003ci\u003ePhantom Plague\u003c\/i\u003e is an urgent, riveting and fascinating narrative that deftly exposes the weakest links in our battle against this ancient foe.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eVidya Krishnan\u003c\/b\u003e is an award-winning journalist who has been reporting on medical science for the last twenty years. She has written for the \u003ci\u003eAtlantic, the LA Times, and The Caravan.\u003c\/i\u003e She was a 2020-2021 Neiman Fellow at Harvard University.\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"PublicAffairs","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50641519051026,"sku":"9781541768468","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_f3ed1358-c451-4f6b-9e09-316d5333e974.jpg?v=1733021566","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/phantom-plague-how-tuberculosis-shaped-history-9781541768468","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}