Tuberculosis then and now : perspectives on the history of an infectious disease / edited by Flurin Condrau and Michael Worboys.

Montreal ; London : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2010], ©2010.

viii, 243 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Tuberculosis and Its Histories: Then and Now / Linda Bryder, Flurin Condrau and Michael Worboys -- 2. Lay Disease Narratives, Tuberculosis, and Health Education Films / Tim Boon -- 3. Targeting Patient Zero / David S. Barnes -- 4. Beyond the Total Institution: Towards a Reinterpretation of the Tuberculosis Sanatorium / Flurin Condrau -- 5. Great White Plague Turns Alien: Tuberculosis and Immigration in Australia, 1901-2001 / Alison Bashford -- 6. Importation, Deprivation, and Susceptibility: Tuberculosis Narratives in Postwar Britain / John Welshman -- 7. Before McKeown: Explaining the Decline of Tuberculosis in Britain, 1880-1930 / Michael Worboys -- 8. "The right not to suffer consumption": Health, Welfare Charity, and the Working Class in Spain during the Restoration Period / Jorge Molero-Mesa -- 9. Lobbying and Resistance with regard to Policy on Bovine Tuberculosis in Britain, 1900-1939: An Inside/Outside Model / Peter J. Atkins -- 10. At Home in the Colonies: the WHO-MRC Trials at the Madras Chemotherapy Centre in the 1950s and 1960s / Helen Valier.