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Captain of Death - The Story of Tuberculosis
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An Egyptian Girl: A Peruvian Boy
Kos, Alexandria, and Rome
The Middle Ages and Beyond
The Relentless Tide
The Hope for Eradication
The Failed Conquest
Etude
Animalcula
Robert Koch and the Tubercle Bacillus
A Distinctly Preventable Disease
Heroes
Two Men of Letters
Brownish Transparent Liquid
A Family Affair
Bacille Calmette-Guerin
Four Cornerposts of Science
The Cursed Duet
Victories
Wolf's Liver and Sea Voyages
False Hope
Places Apart
Collapse and Mutilation
Magic Bullet
Microbe Killers
One One-Hundredth of an Ounce of Prevention
Hope in Haiti

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Daniel's Captain of Death: The Story of Tuberculosis gives a fine introduction to the fascinating history of the disease, told in an unusually friendly manner. Daniel successfully communicates his love of the subject. . . and his literary style will pull the reader along effortlessly. Daniel's profound commitment to his subject is apparent.
*NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE, Oct. 1998*

Entertaining and instructive. . . the book [is] readily accessible to the lay public.
*SOUTH AFRICAN MEDICAL TIMES*

Daniel's description of the modern accounts of the bio-medical response to the disease is the most compelling part of the story.
*AMERICAN J. OF HUMAN BIOLOGY, Vol. 11*

The clarity and intelligence with which Daniel deploys his scientific knowledge to make the science of tuberculosis accessible to the general reader make this book both enjoyable and instructive.
*MEDICAL HISTORY*

This beautifully written and thoroughly researched monograph. . . traces the history of TB from prehistory through today. It is both synoptic and chronologic in approach, and always logical and readable.
*CHOICE, June 1998*

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