Authors: Lee B. Reichman, Janice Hopkins Tanne
"This is an excellent book. It should be read by all who are interested in any aspect of Tuberculosis, including the growing problem of Multi-Drug Resistant Tuberculosis." Journal of American Medical Association"The book serves an important function, relaying statistics and TB hot spots, proposing funding and international standardized treatments. Government officials, researchers and nonprofit
health organizations will likely cast this as the authoritative book on the subject." Publishers Weekly"Like other recent works on the threat of infectious diseases such as Laurie Garrett's The
Coming Plague, Timebomb has the power of fiction and it is sometimes easy to forget that it is not. Unlike…
This shocking book focuses on the emerging
public health threat associated with the rise of multiple drug resistant (MDR) strains of tuberculosis, especially in the former Soviet bloc of countries. In… This lively and well-written book is packed with fascinating nuggets of historical and medical information. From the "dark, Satanic mills" of the Industrial Revolution to the squalid prison cells of…
