{"product_id":"phantom-plague-how-tuberculosis-shaped-history-9781541768468","title":"Phantom Plague: How Tuberculosis Shaped History","description":"\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\u003eIt 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\u003eIn \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\u003eThe 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\u003eKrishnan'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\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e PublicAffairs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/01\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781541768468\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320","brand":"Vidya Krishnan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41500374532277,"sku":"9781541768468","price":25.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_fc80edbe-8ee3-4297-a8cd-84f455f93442.jpg?v=1641276169","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/phantom-plague-how-tuberculosis-shaped-history-9781541768468","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}