Tuberculosis and Irish Fiction, 1800–2022

2023-11-25 Literary Criticism

Author : Rachael Sealy Lynch
Release : 2023-11-25
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Download or read book Tuberculosis and Irish Fiction, 1800–2022 written by Rachael Sealy Lynch. This book was released on 2023-11-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on Ireland’s lived experience of tuberculosis as represented in the nation’s fiction; not surprisingly, the disease both manifests and conceals itself with devastating frequency in literature as it did in life. It seeks to place the history of tuberculosis in Ireland, from 1800 until after its virtual eradication in the mid-Twentieth Century, in conversation with fictional representations or repressions of a condition so fearsome that until very recently it was usually referred to by code words and euphemisms rather than by its name.

Discovering Tuberculosis

2015-06-28 History

Author : Christian W. McMillen
Release : 2015-06-28
Genre : History
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Download or read book Discovering Tuberculosis written by Christian W. McMillen. This book was released on 2015-06-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Phantom Plague

2022-04-29 Science

Author : Vidya Krishna
Release : 2022-04-29
Genre : Science
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Download or read book Phantom Plague written by Vidya Krishna. This book was released on 2022-04-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive social history of tuberculosis, from its origins as a haunting mystery to its modern reemergence that now threatens populations around the world. 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. In Phantom Plague, 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. 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. Krishnan's original reporting paints a granular portrait of the post-antibiotic era as a new, aggressive, drug resistant strain of TB takes over. Phantom Plague is an urgent, riveting and fascinating narrative that deftly exposes the weakest links in our battle against this ancient foe.

Handbook of Child and Adolescent Tuberculosis

2016-01-14 Medical

Author : Jeffrey R. Starke
Release : 2016-01-14
Genre : Medical
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Download or read book Handbook of Child and Adolescent Tuberculosis written by Jeffrey R. Starke. This book was released on 2016-01-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tuberculosis remains one of the most prevalent, deadly, and underdiagnosed infectious diseases in the world. In children, this burden is doubly problematic because of the disease's unique clinical characteristics and its need for special public health and diagnostic techniques. After decades of relative inattention to these factors, childhood tuberculosis has now grown into an important area of competency for child health programs in low-burden areas, including the United States. The Handbook of Child and Adolescent Tuberculosis is a state of the art clinical reference written and edited by the world's leading experts in childhood tuberculosis. It offers clinicians in any geography or setting practical, evidence-based advice on all aspects of the disease, including its natural history, epidemiology, presentation, treatment, and prevention -- all in a format that synthesizes literature with the clinical experience of the leading authorities in this challenging field. As the need for childhood tuberculosis services in child health programs grows, this handbook provides a new benchmark for practitioners and trainees in pediatrics, infectious disease, pulmonary medicine, and public health to better understand this persisting and difficult disease.

Hachette Children’s Yearbook & Infopedia 2022

2021-10-25 Juvenile Nonfiction

Author : Hachette India
Release : 2021-10-25
Genre : Juvenile Nonfiction
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Download or read book Hachette Children’s Yearbook & Infopedia 2022 written by Hachette India. This book was released on 2021-10-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 13th Updated Edition A power-packed GK, current affairs and reference book! If you want a fact-finder, if you're looking to expand your GK, if you wish you had a ready reckoner of must-know information, if you need to know what in the world is going on...then this book is indispensable for you! The Hachette Children's Yearbook & Infopedia brings you news, general knowledge, current affairs, fascinating facts and much more about your favourite focus points in every annual bestselling edition. With well-researched and updated content and data, this book is the essential companion for every smart student who wants to stay ahead. Pick it up and start to explore - for reference, home assignments, projects and so much more! PLUS: FACTS AND STATS ON INDIA AND EVERY COUNTRY IN THE WORLD! What You Will Find Inside: *News Highlights from India and around the World *People Who Made Headlines *Inside the Earth *Environment News *Out There in Space *History Timelines *Science Basics *Literature Info *Sports Spotlights *Superlatives *The Year Ahead...and More! DON'T MISS *75 Years of Indian Independence *Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics Round-Up *The New Industrial Revolution *What on Earth Is Happening in 2022

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