Tuberculosis [[electronic resource] /] / Carol A. Dyer

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910455735103321
• Autore: Dyer Carol
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Santa Barbara, Calif., : Greenwood, c2010
• ISBN: 1-280-11927-6; 9786613523433
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (168 p.)
• Collana: Biographies of disease
• Disciplina: 616.9/95
• Soggetti: Tuberculosis; Communicable diseases; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Series Foreword""; ""Preface""; ""Introduction""; ""Chapter 1. Tuberculosis: Contagion and Cause""; ""The Mycobacterium Tuberculosis""; ""From Exposure to Infection""; ""From Infection to Disease""; ""The Development of Disease""; ""Discovering the Cause: The Germ Theory of Disease""; ""Chapter 2. Signs and Certainty: Tuberculosis Symptoms and Diagnosis""; ""Symptoms""; ""The Tools of Diagnosis""; ""Tuberculin Skin Test""; ""Tuberculosis Blood Testing""; ""Chest X-Ray""; ""Smear and Culture Testing""; ""Nucleic Acid Amplification Tests""; ""Diagnosis in Developing Countries""""Tuberculosis in Subgroups of People""; ""Women""; ""Children""; ""Migration and Immigration""; ""Chapter 3. The History of Tuberculosis""; ""Tuberculosis in Ancient Civilizations""; ""Tuberculosis in Europe: The Middle Ages through the 18th Century""; ""Tuberculosis in 19th-Century Europe""; ""The History of Tuberculosis in the United States""; ""Chapter 4. Early Efforts to Tame Tuberculosis""; ""Hearing the Sounds of Tuberculosis""; ""Seeing Inside the Human Bodyâ€?The Discovery of X-Rays""; ""The Tuberculin Skin Testâ€?Human and Bovine Tuberculosis""; ""Tuberculosis and Literature""""Tuberculosis on the Stage""; ""Tuberculosis in the Movies""; ""Tuberculosis Sings the Blues""; ""Tuberculosis on Canvas""; ""Raising Awareness through the Arts""; ; ""Chapter 7. Resurgence of the Social Disease: Tuberculosis Makes a Comeback""; ""The Social Disease""; ""Public Health Attitudes in the Early Post-Antibiotic Years""; ""The Resurgence of Tuberculosis in the United States""; ""The Resurgence of Tuberculosis in the United Kingdom""; ""Tuberculosis in Prisons: The States of the Former Soviet Union""; ""The Global Tuberculosis Crisis""; ""Tuberculosis and HIV Co-Infection""""Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis""; ""The Major Targets of Tuberculosis Control""; ""Chapter 8. Tuberculosis and the Future""; ""Future Drug Treatments for Tuberculosis""; ""Future Directions in Diagnostics""; ""The Future of Tuberculosis Vaccination""; ""Worldwide Tuberculosis: The Global Effort""; ""Eliminating Tuberculosis in the United States""; ""Tuberculosis Does Not Get the Last Word . . .""; ""Tuberculosis Timeline""; ""Glossary""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""
• Sommario/riassunto: Tuberculosis is a complicated medical condition that has a rich and important history, a distinctive social context, and an active and destructive present. The disease appears in Greek literature as early as 460 BCE and was a favorite of 19th-century novelists whose heroines often succumbed to ""consumption."" Through history, the development of TB diagnosis and treatment has been synonymous with events in the development of medicine. Tuberculosis presents TB from the perspective of the people and events that shaped its past and the factors that influence its current global state. The boo