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The Forgotten Plague: How the Battle Against Tuberculosis Was Won - And Lost
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 614.54209
EAN: 9780316763806
ISBN: 0316763802
Label: Little, Brown and Company
Manufacturer: Little, Brown and Company
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 480
Publication Date: June 23, 1993
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Studio: Little, Brown and Company
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Editorial Review:
A timely study recalls the effects of this devastating disease, which killed more than one billion people worldwide, examines its temporary decline and recent resurgence, and discusses the threat of a new epidemic of tuberculosis.
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - A valient effort
Frank Ryan writes overly long about the attempts to fight tuberculosis. Admittedly, Ryan is no historian. His work bounces along from one aspect of the stuggle to another, while only the most tenuous relation is suggested. He bogs down in the details of tangential aspects of the story and it is only in reflective hindsight that one begins to find continuity.
Ryan's book traces the many threads of research that produced ever-increasing breakthroughs in controlling tuberculosis; the ... Read More
Rating:  - Simply amazing!!
As a lung doctor coming from a country where tuberculosis is a common disease I thought this book was going to be interesting. I was wrong. It was fascinating! I made the mistake of start reading it while I was working on some professional projects. The result was several nights of poor sleep just because I started my reading after finishing my work late at night and I just could not stop reading it! I am going to buy several copies for some of my coleagues. This is a great book
Rating: - Entertaining & fascinating at the same time!
This book really gives the inside story about Tuberculosis or "Consumption" as it has been known for centuries. The first chapter was a little slow and preachy, but by the 3rd chapter the author really takes off with fascinating details and glimpses into the horrible suffering of TB victims. Bless the memory of all those nameless souls who died of this dreadful, perplexing, and still 'consuming' disease. Truly a sad story in the annals of medicine, and a deeper look at our mortal vulnerability to ... Read More
Rating: - Superb Book on How Science Saved Lives
This book should be required reading for our schools! It shows how people communicated ideas and progress on the cure for tuberculosis and made incredible discoveries! It reads like a novel and is superb!
Rating: - Must reading: how science happens. Why is it out of print?
Certainly the great hallmark of modern civilization is the dramatically increased ease of communication, and it is this ease of communication which has so changed the face of modern science. It is fitting, then, that Dr. Ryan begins his book with a brief history of tuberculosis leading up to Koch's epic-making lecture on 24 August 1882 announcing his discovery of the cause of tuberculosis. Towards the end of the chapter he quotes the protest of an editor at the New York Times about the delay in receiving ... Read More
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