Recommended Books on Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis Pearls New York University, New York City. Handbook of 75 clinical case presentations in tuberculosis, with diagnosis, one-page discussion, and pearls. For residents and medical students. Halftone illustrations. DNLM: Tuberculosis, Pulmonary - diagnosis - case studies.
The Making of a Social Disease: Tuberculosis in Nineteenth-Century France In this first English-language study of popular and scientific responses to tuberculosis in nineteenth-century France, David Barnes provides a much-needed historical perspective on a disease that is making an alarming comeback in the United States and Europe. Barnes argues that French perceptions of the diseaseranging from the early romantic image of a consumptive woman to the later view of a scourge spread by the poorowed more to the power structures of nineteenth-century society than to medical science. By 1900, the war against tuberculosis had become a war against the dirty habits of the working class. Lucid and original, Barnes's study broadens our understanding of how and why societies assign moral meanings to deadly diseases.
Tuberculosis: The Microbe Host Interface (Horizon Bioscience) Ohio State Univ., Columbus. Discusses the interaction of M. tuberculosis with the host revealing new information on the disease's pathogenesis. Presents state-of-the-art approaches used to study microbe-host interactions and highlights emerging technologies. Also discusses mycobacterial entry, growth, and gene expression in macrophages. For researchers.
Tuberculosis (Twenty-First Century Medical Library) One of the deadliest diseases healthcare workers fight today, tuberculosis (often called TB) infects the lungs of one-third of the world's population and kills about 2 million people a year. While scientific breakthroughs brought this bacterial disease under control during the 1960s to the 1980s, it was never completely eliminated. In the early 1990s, TB came back as a serious global threat. Not only has TB now spread to virtually every country on Earth, new strains of TB--which are resistant to the standard antibiotics used to cure it--have appeared. Learn what causes TB, how it spreads, why it is so difficult to treat, and more in this informative volume.
The Forgotten Plague: How the Battle Against Tuberculosis Was Won - And Lost Tuberculosis has claimed more than a billion lives worldwide. In this acclaimed book, Dr. Frank Ryan tells the remarkable story of the dedicated doctors, chemists, and bacteriologists who halted the course of this ferocious disease--until the "old enemy" found in AIDS a deadly ally to form a drug-resistant synergy. 8 pages of photos.
Captain of Death: The Story of Tuberculosis The dramatic story of tuberculosis is told here in a straightforward and accessible style. It presents the stories of persons connected with the disease, either as victims, or as those who made contributions to our knowledge of it; in addition to these personal accounts, the book unfolds the history and explains the pathogenesis of TB. The re-emergence of tuberculosis as a major American public health hazard has focused much attention on this ancient disease. This book offers a comprehensive account of the disease from prehistoric times through to the present day, detailing the attempts to eradicate it completely. Its four separate sections (the spread of tuberculosis; its infectious nature; susceptibility to it; and methods of treatment) are linked through the device of presenting individuals' particular experience of the disease, whether as as victims, or as those who made contributions to our knowledge of it; in between these vignettes, the book unfolds the history and explains the pathogenesis of TB. A detailed medical glossary completes the volume.THOMAS M. DANIEL is Emeritus Professor of Medicine and International Health and Director of the Center for International Health at Case Western Reserve University.
Clinical Tuberculosis (A Hodder Arnold Publication) Clinical Tuberculosis remains an indispensable resource for respiratory physicians, infectious disease specialists, public health workers and other individuals involved in the management and control of tuberculosis worldwide. This established reference is a comprehensive accoutn of tuberculosis, providing up-to-date and authoritative information on all aspects of the disease. It gives practical guidance to health professionals who may be involved in any aspect of patient management or disease control, including chapters on epidemiology, pathology, immunology, disease presentation, diagnosis, treatment and management options. Specific consideration is given to the problems of TB associated with HIV infection, and issues of control relating to low and high prevalence countries respectively. The ongoing issues surrounding the BCG vaccination and preventive therapy are also covered, as are the increasing problems of multi-drug resistant strains and environmental opportunist mycobacteria.
Toman's Tuberculosis: Case Detection, Treatment and Monitoring The second edition of this practical, authoritative reference book provides a rational basis for the diagnosis and management of tuberculosis. Written by a number of experts in the field, it remains faithful to Kurt Toman's original question-and-answer format, with subject matter grouped under the three headings Case Detection, Treatment, and Monitoring.
It is a testament to the enduring nature of the first edition that so much material has been retained unchanged. At the same time, the new edition has had not only to address the huge resurgence of tuberculosis, the emergence of multi-drug-resistant bacilli, and the special needs of HIV-infected individuals with tuberculosis, but also to encompass significant scientific advances. These changes in the profile of the disease and in approaches to management have inevitably prompted many new questions and answers and given a different complexion to others.
Toman's Tuberculosis remains essential reading for all who need to learn more about every aspect of tuberculosis - case-finding management and effective control strategies. It provides invaluable support to anyone in the front line of the battle against this disease, from program managers to policy-makers and from medical personnel to volunteer health workers.
Now also available in Spanish through the Pan American Health Organization TUBERCULOSIS: Detección de casos tratamiento y vigilancia. Preguntas y respuestas
The White Death: A History of Tuberculosis "One of the most readable medical histories ever."
--Sunday Express
"A gripping read, enlightening and moving by turns."
--Evening Standard "Like an experienced suspense writer, the author of this marvelous book reserves his good news until the end. . . . One of the additional pleasures of his book lies in its vivid parentheses, case histories, even footnotes. . . . [it is] enlivened by Dormandy's mordant wit and idiosyncratic style. . . . A fine book."
--Anita Brookner, The Sunday Times "A model of how medical history ought to be written . . . lucid in its analysis and perspicacious in its commentary."
--Peter Ackroyd, The Times of London "This is not a book for the faint-hearted or the hypochondriac. It is, however, a fascinating account of a disease which is probably as old as man himself."
--Literary Review "Dormandy writes extremely well, with a sharp wit . . . it is impossible to do justice to the riches to be found in this book."
--The Sunday Telegraph Thomas Dormandy's engrossing account of the complex social, artistic, and natural history of tuberculosis is also a chronicle of the medical profession at its best and worst. For the Victorians, who elevated illness and morbidity into art forms, the victims of tuberculosis were the ultimate in pale and interesting, not least because they were so often young and gifted. The roll call of genius reads like an anthem for doomed youth: Keats, Chopin, the Bronts, Robert Louis Stevenson, Chekhov, Orwell, to name but a few. The dying heroine became as much the stock in trade of Romantic fiction and painting as of opera. Laying waste to entire generations, tuberculosis lacked an effective treatment until after the Second World War, and a cure still eludes us.
The Bioarchaeology of Tuberculosis: A Global View on a Reemerging Disease
Though apparently in decline during the first half of the 20th century, tuberculosis has reawakened in both developed and developing countries, particularly among susceptible populations with immunodeficiency disorders.
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