附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-265) and index.
Introduction : Tuberculosis as a different kind of disease -- Disease and the agrarian order : tuberculosis before Koch -- Coping with Koch's challenges : bacteria, biologics, and the economy of disease, 1880-1915 -- Spit and polish : the middle-class crusade to build resistance, 1900-1925 -- Medicine, science, and the national interest : American responses to the BCG vaccine in the 1920s -- For cows, boys, and Indians : North American trials of BCG, 1924-1946 -- "Not a substitute for approved hygienic measures" : BCG and the postwar campaign against tuberculosis -- Conclusion : Restoring history to understand the resurgence of tuberculosis.
