{"title":"Vidya Krishnan","description":"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.","products":[{"product_id":"phantom-plague-how-tuberculosis-shaped-history-hardcover","title":"Phantom Plague: How Tuberculosis Shaped History - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe definitive social history of tuberculosis, from its ancient origins to nineteenth-century epidemics to its modern reemergence amongst the global poor \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Krishnan is a powerful storyteller, and her accounts of frustration, suffering, grief and resilience are moving.\"―\u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In \u003ci\u003ePhantom Plague\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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 authoritarian government, toxic kindness of philanthropists, science denialism and medical apartheid. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Krishnan's original reporting paints a granular portrait of the post-antibiotic era as a new, aggressive, drug resistant strain of TB takes over. \u003ci\u003ePhantom Plague\u003c\/i\u003e is an urgent, riveting and fascinating narrative that deftly exposes the weakest links in our battle against this ancient foe.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51376924229855,"sku":"9781541768468","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/nLgJuIRln49781541768468.webp?v=1789228969"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/vidya-krishnan.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}