Catching breath
Subtitle: the making and unmaking of tuberculosis
By: Kathryn Lougheed
Series: Bloomsbury sigma series; Bloomsbury sigma series
Publisher: Bloomsbury Sigma
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9781472930330; 9781472930347; 9781472930361
Subjects: Tuberculosis; History
Description: "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.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: I caught TB from my pet cat; title: Bringing the dead back to life; title: From moo to man and back again; title: Didn't we already cure it?; title: All that glitters; title: Thanks for the memories; title: The human universe; title: Huber the Tuber's 20-tuberculear sleep; title: Growing fat on the Atkins diet; title: Killing the unkillable; title: The drugs don't work; title: A barometer of inequality; title: Ratting out the missing 3 million; title: New drugs for bad bugs; title: Epilogue: TB continued.