Discovering Tuberculosis: A Global History, 1900 to the Present (Hardcover)
暫譯: 發現結核病:全球歷史,1900年至今(精裝版)

Christian W. McMillen

  • 出版商: Yale University Pres
  • 出版日期: 2015-06-30
  • 售價: $3,380
  • 貴賓價: 9.5$3,211
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 352
  • 裝訂: Hardcover
  • ISBN: 0300190298
  • ISBN-13: 9780300190298
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Tuberculosis is one of the world’s deadliest infectious diseases, killing nearly two million people every year—more now than at any other time in history. While the developed world has nearly forgotten about TB, it continues to wreak havoc across much of the globe. In this interdisciplinary study of global efforts to control TB, Christian McMillen examines the disease’s remarkable staying power by offering a probing look at key locations, developments, ideas, and medical successes and failures since 1900. He explores TB and race in east Africa, in South Africa, and on Native American reservations in the first half of the twentieth century, investigates the unsuccessful search for a vaccine, uncovers the origins of drug-resistant tuberculosis in Kenya and elsewhere in the decades following World War II, and details the tragic story of the resurgence of TB in the era of HIV/AIDS. Discovering Tuberculosis explains why controlling TB has been, and continues to be, so difficult.

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肺結核是全球最致命的傳染病之一,每年造成近兩百萬人死亡——這一數字比歷史上任何時期都要高。雖然發達國家幾乎已經忘記了肺結核,但它仍在全球許多地區造成嚴重破壞。在這項跨學科的研究中,基督教·麥克米倫(Christian McMillen)考察了全球控制肺結核的努力,通過深入探討自1900年以來的關鍵地點、發展、思想以及醫療的成功與失敗,揭示了這種疾病的顯著持久性。他探討了二十世紀上半葉東非和南非的肺結核與種族問題,以及美國原住民保留地的情況,調查了尋找疫苗的失敗,揭示了二戰後幾十年來肯尼亞及其他地區抗藥性肺結核的起源,並詳細描述了在HIV/AIDS時代肺結核復發的悲劇故事。《發現肺結核》(Discovering Tuberculosis)解釋了為什麼控制肺結核如此困難,並且仍然如此。