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Tuberculosis Books
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Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as tuberculosis)
avg rating 4.33 — 254,482 ratings — published 2025
The Magic Mountain (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 11 times as tuberculosis)
avg rating 4.13 — 63,823 ratings — published 1924
The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as tuberculosis)
avg rating 4.22 — 3,901 ratings — published 2023
Breathing Room (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as tuberculosis)
avg rating 4.21 — 2,291 ratings — published 2012
The Phantom Plague: How Tuberculosis Shaped History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as tuberculosis)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,342 ratings — published 2022
Spitting Blood: The History of Tuberculosis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as tuberculosis)
avg rating 3.60 — 249 ratings — published 2012
The Empusium (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as tuberculosis)
avg rating 3.75 — 26,799 ratings — published 2022
Catching Breath: The Making and Unmaking of Tuberculosis (Bloomsbury Sigma)
by (shelved 7 times as tuberculosis)
avg rating 3.74 — 231 ratings — published 2017
Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as tuberculosis)
avg rating 4.20 — 89,689 ratings — published 2003
Doc (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as tuberculosis)
avg rating 4.00 — 17,663 ratings — published 2011
Extraordinary Means (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as tuberculosis)
avg rating 3.92 — 22,154 ratings — published 2015
The Remedy: Robert Koch, Arthur Conan Doyle, and the Quest to Cure Tuberculosis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as tuberculosis)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,577 ratings — published 2014
Living in the Shadow of Death: Tuberculosis and the Social Experience of Illness in American History (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as tuberculosis)
avg rating 3.89 — 81 ratings — published 1994
STIGMATIZED: A Mongolian Girl's Journey from Stigma & Illness to Empowerment (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as tuberculosis)
avg rating 4.45 — 87 ratings — published
The White Plague: Tuberculosis, Man and Society (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as tuberculosis)
avg rating 3.92 — 80 ratings — published 1952
The Air We Breathe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as tuberculosis)
avg rating 3.45 — 1,839 ratings — published 2007
The Plague and I (Betty MacDonald Memoirs, #2)
by (shelved 5 times as tuberculosis)
avg rating 4.20 — 2,447 ratings — published 1948
Queen of Hearts: Coming of Age in a Hospital Bed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as tuberculosis)
avg rating 3.67 — 742 ratings — published 2010
A Child of Sanitariums: A Memoir of Tuberculosis Survival and Lifelong Disability (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as tuberculosis)
avg rating 3.76 — 34 ratings — published 2010
Consumptive Chic: A History of Beauty, Fashion, and Disease (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as tuberculosis)
avg rating 3.62 — 121 ratings — published
Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present (Open Yale Courses)
by (shelved 4 times as tuberculosis)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,057 ratings — published 2019
Invincible Microbe: Tuberculosis and the Never-Ending Search for a Cure (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as tuberculosis)
avg rating 3.92 — 816 ratings — published 2012
The Forgotten Plague: How the Battle Against Tuberculosis Was Won - And Lost (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as tuberculosis)
avg rating 4.12 — 104 ratings — published 1993
The Baby's Cross (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as tuberculosis)
avg rating 3.96 — 24 ratings — published 2003
Well Diary...I Have Tuberculosis: Researching a Teenager's 1918 Sanatorium Experience (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as tuberculosis)
avg rating 4.50 — 10 ratings — published 2014
The Essex Serpent (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as tuberculosis)
avg rating 3.52 — 70,095 ratings — published 2016
The White Death: A History of Tuberculosis (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as tuberculosis)
avg rating 3.75 — 89 ratings — published 1998
Solenoid (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as tuberculosis)
avg rating 4.25 — 7,280 ratings — published 2015
La dame aux camélias (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as tuberculosis)
avg rating 4.05 — 63,597 ratings — published 1848
Death at the Sanatorium (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as tuberculosis)
avg rating 3.64 — 8,027 ratings — published 2019
Bargaining for Life: A Social History of Tuberculosis, 1876-1938 (Studies in Health, Illness, and Caregiving)
by (shelved 2 times as tuberculosis)
avg rating 3.60 — 10 ratings — published 1992
Light and Air (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as tuberculosis)
avg rating 4.25 — 983 ratings — published 2024
The Sanatorium (Detective Elin Warner, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as tuberculosis)
avg rating 3.36 — 206,342 ratings — published 2021
Tuberculosis: the Greatest Story Never Told: The Human Story of the Search for the Cure for Tuberculosis and the New Global Threat (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as tuberculosis)
avg rating 4.58 — 62 ratings — published 1992
Tuberculosis and the Victorian Literary Imagination (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, Series Number 74)
by (shelved 2 times as tuberculosis)
avg rating 4.40 — 15 ratings — published 2010
The Idiot (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as tuberculosis)
avg rating 4.21 — 224,667 ratings — published 1869
The Dark Circle (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as tuberculosis)
avg rating 3.53 — 1,917 ratings — published 2016
The Rack (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as tuberculosis)
avg rating 3.76 — 181 ratings — published 1958
The Secret Horses of Briar Hill (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as tuberculosis)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,465 ratings — published 2016
Fever at Dawn (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as tuberculosis)
avg rating 3.60 — 3,011 ratings — published 2010
Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as tuberculosis)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,928 ratings — published 1999
A White Wind Blew (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as tuberculosis)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,189 ratings — published 2010
Under the Wide and Starry Sky (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as tuberculosis)
avg rating 3.61 — 18,998 ratings — published 2014
Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds: Ebola and the Ravages of History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as tuberculosis)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,325 ratings — published 2020
The Crystal Armour (Mysterious Scotland Book 8)
by (shelved 1 time as tuberculosis)
avg rating 4.71 — 484 ratings — published
Consumed: A Sister’s Story (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as tuberculosis)
avg rating 3.69 — 229 ratings — published 2021
The Woman beneath the Skin: A Doctor’s Patients in Eighteenth-Century Germany (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as tuberculosis)
avg rating 3.88 — 76 ratings — published 1991
An Introduction to Global Health Delivery: Practice, Equity, Human Rights (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as tuberculosis)
avg rating 4.41 — 34 ratings — published 2017
Chasing the Cure in New Mexico: Tuberculosis and the Quest for Health (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as tuberculosis)
avg rating 4.11 — 9 ratings — published
A New History of Sierra Leone (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as tuberculosis)
avg rating 3.83 — 18 ratings — published 1990
“The disease is still around, it's still contagious, and despite the fact that the vaccine costs approximately sixteen cents to produce, and $3.13 to buy, tuberculosis continues to ravage periphery countries.
Millions of people die from tuberculosis every year - and it's totally treatable. This is a disease we can eradicate in our lifetime.”
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Millions of people die from tuberculosis every year - and it's totally treatable. This is a disease we can eradicate in our lifetime.”
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“Twentieth century women's fashions (with their cult of thinness) are the last stronghold of the metaphors associated with the romanticizing of TB in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.”
― Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors
― Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors
