Catching breath : the making and unmaking of tuberculosis / Kathryn Lougheed.
Catching breath : the making and unmaking of tuberculosis / Kathryn Lougheed.
Catching breath : the making and unmaking of tuberculosis / Kathryn Lougheed.
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Publisher
London, UK ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Sigma, 2017.
Call Numbers
G 2018/0260
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Language
English
Physical Description
Physical content
272 pages ; 23 cm.
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Introduction: I caught TB from my pet cat -- Bringing the dead back to life -- From moo to man and back again -- Didn't we already cure it? -- All that glitters -- Thanks for the memories -- The human universe -- Huber the Tuber's 20-tuberculear sheep -- Growing fat on the Atkins diet -- Killing the...
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Publisher
London, UK ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Sigma, 2017.
Series
Date Published
2017.
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Summary
"Catching Breath--the story of one of the world's oldest diseases--looks at the hidden biology behind the interaction of Mycobacterium tuberculosis with its human host, and shows how drug resistance, the HIV epidemic, poverty and inequality work together to ensure that TB remains one of the most serious problems in world medicine."--Jacket flap.
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Catching breath : the making and unmaking of tuberculosis / Kathryn Lougheed.
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Notes
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Bloomsbury sigma series
Includes index.
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©2017
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Call Numbers
G 2018/0260
Record Identifier
74VKVGRz27Wy
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVGRz27Wy
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ISBN
9781472930330
DDC
616.995009
MMS ID
991024152318502626
