Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : Tuberculosis as a different kind of disease
  • Disease and the agrarian order : tuberculosis before Koch
  • Coping with Koch's challenges : bacteria, biologics, and the economy of disease, 1880-1915
  • Spit and polish : the middle-class crusade to build resistance, 1900-1925
  • Medicine, science, and the national interest : American responses to the BCG vaccine in the 1920s
  • For cows, boys, and Indians : North American trials of BCG, 1924-1946
  • "Not a substitute for approved hygienic measures" : BCG and the postwar campaign against tuberculosis
  • Conclusion : Restoring history to understand the resurgence of tuberculosis.