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Author
Series
Bloomsbury sigma volume 24
Publisher
Bloomsbury Sigma
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Covers the history of tuberculosis, one of the world's oldest diseases, discussing how it became a successful bacterium and how scientists can use that information to combat it.
Author
Publisher
Public Affairs
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 9.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Learn about the disease tuberculosis that has been stalking and doing away with people for thousands of years. For centuries TB in many forms was treated with everything from poultices and potions to the king's touch. The microorganism that causes the disease was eventually identified, more effective treatments were developed, and the cure for TB was thought to be within reach. But the TB germ simply will not die; drug-resistant varieties continue...
Author
Publisher
The Franklin Library
Pub. Date
[1981]
Language
English
Description
In a Swiss sanatorium because he has tuberculosis, Hans Castorp meets people whose differing philosophies of life lead him to shape his own.
A sanatorium in the Swiss Alps reflects the societal ills of pre-twentieth-century Europe, and a young marine engineer rises from his life of anonymity to become a pivotal character in a story about how a human's environment affects self identity. In this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas, Mann uses a sanatorium...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
By the dawn of the nineteenth century, tuberculosis had killed one in seven of all the people who had ever lived. The disease struck America with a vengeance, ravaging communities and touching the lives of almost every family. The battle against the deadly bacteria had a profound and lasting impact on the country, It shaped medical and scientific pursuits, social habits, economic development, western expansion, and government policy. The story is...
6) Tuberculosis
Author
Publisher
Lucent Books/Thomson Gale
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Gotham Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"The riveting history of tuberculosis, the world's most lethal disease, the two men whose lives it tragically intertwined, and the birth of medical science. In 1875, tuberculosis was the deadliest disease in the world, accountable for a third of all deaths. A diagnosis of TB-often called consumption-was a death sentence. Then, in triumph of medical science, a German doctor named Robert Koch deployed an unprecedented scientific rigor to discover the...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Consumption has ravaged Louise Pinecroft's family, leaving her and her father alone and heartbroken. But Dr. Pinecroft has plans for a revolutionary experiment: convinced that sea air will prove to be the cure his wife and children needed, he arranges to house a group of prisoners suffering from the disease in the caves beneath his new Cornish home. While he devotes himself to his controversial medical trials, Louise finds herself increasingly discomfited...
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"When Eleanor Harper becomes the director of a renowned artists' retreat, she knows very little of Cliffside Manor's dark past as a tuberculosis sanatorium, a "waiting room for death." After years of covering murder and violence as a crime reporter, Eleanor hopes that being around artists and writers in this new job will be a peaceful retreat for her as much as for them. But from her first fog-filled moments on the manor's grounds, Eleanor is seized...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
In the nation's capital, Kate Livingston's respectable life as a government worker is disrupted by an encounter with the insufferable Trevor McDonough, a man she'd hoped never to see again. The Harvard-trained physician had never shown the tiniest flicker of interest in Kate. But despite her misgivings, Kate agrees to Trevor's risky proposal to join his work to find a cure for tuberculosis. However, a shadowy enemy lies in wait, and soon revelations...
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Description
"New York City, 1929. A sanatorium, a deadly disease, and a dire nursing shortage. In the pre-antibiotic days when tuberculosis stirred people’s darkest fears, killing one in seven, white nurses at Sea View, New York’s largest municipal hospital, began quitting en masse. Desperate to avert a public health crisis, city officials summoned Black southern nurses, luring them with promises of good pay, a career, and an escape from the strictures...
13) Queen of hearts
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Shortly after her first kiss but before her sixteenth birthday in December, 1941, Marie Claire and her younger brother and sister are sent to a tuberculosis sanatorium near their Manitoba farm.
15) Light and air
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2024]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"It's 1935, and tuberculosis is ravaging the nation. Everyone is afraid of this deadly respiratory illness. But what happens when you actually have it? When Halle and her mother both come down with TB, they are shunned—and then they are sent to the J.N. Adam Tuberculosis Hospital: far from home, far from family, far from the world. Tucked away in the woods of upstate New York, the hospital is a closed and quiet place. But it is not, Halle learns,...
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