Just finished John Green’s book on tuberculosis and he lists some titles for further reading that seemed like a fitting list for anyone who wants to dive down the rabbit hole.
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The Hour of Our Death: The Classic History of Western Attitudes Toward Death over the Last One Thousand Years
Philippe Ariès
Consumptive Chic: A History of Fashion, Beauty and Disease
Carolyn A. Day
The White Plague: Tuberculosis, Man and Society
Jean Dubos
STIGMATIZED: A Mongolian Girl's Journey from Stigma & Illness to Empowerment
Handaa Enkh-Amgalan
A New History of Sierra Leone
Joe A.D. Alie
A Child of Sanitariums: A Memoir of Tuberculosis Survival and Lifelong Disability
Gloria Paris
Well Diary...I Have Tuberculosis: Researching a Teenager's 1918 Sanatorium Experience
Shirley Morgan
Living in the Shadow of Death: Tuberculosis and the Social Experience of Illness in American History
Sheila M. Rothman
Chasing the Cure in New Mexico: Tuberculosis and the Quest for Health
Nancy Owen Lewis
Discovering Tuberculosis: A Global History, 1900 to the Present
Christian W. McMillen
Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present (Open Yale Courses)
Frank M. Snowden III
The Woman beneath the Skin: A Doctor’s Patients in Eighteenth-Century Germany
Barbara Duden
The Baby's Cross
C. Gale Perkins
The Remedy: Robert Koch, Arthur Conan Doyle, and the Quest to Cure Tuberculosis
Thomas Goetz
Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues
Paul Farmer
An Introduction to Global Health Delivery: Practice, Equity, Human Rights
Joia S. Mukherjee
The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis
Maria Smilios
The Phantom Plague: How Tuberculosis Shaped History
Vidya Krishnan
Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
Tracy Kidder
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