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
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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