幽灵瘟疫：肺结核如何塑造历史 Phantom Plague：How Tuberculosis Shaped History

基本信息

Format:Hardback 320 pages

Publisher:PublicAffairs,U.S.

Imprint:PublicAffairs,U.S.

ISBN:9781541768468

Published:31 Mar 2022

Dimensions:150 x 216 x 31 (mm)

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

结核病的明确社会史，从它的起源作为一个令人难以忘怀的谜团，到它在现代重新出现并威胁世界各地的人口。

它杀死了小说家乔治·奥威尔、埃莉诺·罗斯福以及数百万人——无论贫富。 德斯蒙德·图图、阿米特巴·巴强和纳尔逊·曼德拉都幸免于难。 几个世纪以来，结核病肆虐城市，困扰着人体。

在《幽灵瘟疫》中，维迪亚·克里希南 (Vidya Krishnan) 追溯了从 19 世纪纽约贫民窟到现代孟买的结核病历史。 在跨越一个世纪的叙述中，克里希南展示了迷信和民间疗法如何为对结核病的科学理解让路，从而使结核病在西方得到控制和治愈。

黑人和棕色人种民族从来没有治愈的方法。 结核杆菌表现出了非凡的适应能力，以至于在它对人类的威胁本来可能被消灭的那一刻，它在政府、慈善家的有毒善意、科学否认主义和医学种族隔离的帮助下找到了一条回来的路。

克里希南起初的报告描绘了后抗生素时代的细致图景，一种新的、侵袭性的、耐药性结核病菌株占据了主导地位。 《幻影瘟疫》是一个紧迫、引人入胜且引人入胜的故事，巧妙地揭露了我们与这个古老敌人的战斗中薄弱的环节。

The definitive social history of tuberculosis, from its origins as a haunting mystery to its modern reemergence that now threatens populations around the world.

It killed novelist George Orwell, Eleanor Roosevelt, and millions of others – rich and poor. Desmond Tutu, Amitabh Bachchan, and Nelson Mandela survived it, just. For centuries, tuberculosis has ravaged cities and plagued the human body. 

In Phantom Plague, Vidya Krishnan, traces the history of tuberculosis from the slums of 19th-century New York to modern Mumbai. In a narrative spanning century, Krishnan shows how superstition and folk-remedies, made way for scientific understanding of TB, such that it was controlled and cured in the West. 

The cure was never available to black and brown nations. And the tuberculosis bacillus showed a remarkable ability to adapt – so that at the very moment it could have been extinguished as a threat to humanity, it found a way back, aided by government, toxic kindness of philanthropists, science denialism and medical apartheid.

Krishnan’s original reporting paints a granular portrait of the post-antibiotic era as a new, aggressive, medicine resistant strain of TB takes over. Phantom Plague is an urgent, riveting and fascinating narrative that deftly exposes the weakest links in our battle against this ancient foe. 

作者简介

维迪亚·克里希南 (Vidya Krishnan) 是一位屡获殊荣的记者，过去二十年一直在报道医学科学。 她曾为《大西洋月刊》、《洛杉矶时报》和《大篷车》撰稿。 她是哈佛大学 2020-2021 年度内曼研究员。

Vidya Krishnan is an award-winning journalist who has been reporting on medical science for the last twenty years. She has written for the Atlantic, the LA Times, and The Caravan. She was a 2020–2021 Neiman Fellow at Harvard University.