In seven chapters, Yancey presents a clear understanding of tuberculosis, "the persistent enemy." With statistics, the author informs that TB is no longer a disease mainly among a poor or sickly population. It is affecting healthy middle class children and adults and is the top infectious killer in the world, above AIDS and pneumonia. It infects 1/3 of the world's population.

The challenge in eradicating this disease that damages the lungs and is highly contagious is that many strains of TB now are resistant to drug therapies that have previously been effective. Also, governments around the world do not all support prevention or agree on the most effective treatment. Although we have come a long way from treating the disease with butter on feet, ashes of swine dung mixed with raisin wine, wolf's liver, elephant blood, brown sugar and water, or syrup made from millipedes, there is still no one all-encompassing protocol that is affordable and effective for the population who are carriers of TB.

This well-researched book contains many interesting illustrations, such as infected cells, old public health posters, researchers in labs in the late 1940s, and maps of incidences of TB cases by state. Yancey personalizes some of the information by presenting cases of individuals and their families who are dealing with the disease. She even-handedly presents the concerns and issues and provides a chapter on action and awareness. Also included is a glossary, resources, further reading, index.

Useful as a source of information for school reports, Tuberculosis is also a book that is an interesting an enlightening history of how small the world becomes through the spread of disease.

Very disappointing if you have already read The Medical Dectective by Berton Roueche; or vice versa they are 90% the same, but a very interesting read if thats what your into!

This book is a great beginning to those who wish to learn more about the subject not taught in school. The author guides you through a generalized version of what most people went through and the agony of being treated as an alien although they themselves thought and conducted themselves as loyal americans. This book has great pictures which allows you to experience the emotions and especially allows you into the younger generation's point of view. It was a little to broad and seemed to be directed at a younger reading group (12-15 years of age). I am glad I read it, but it is for the beginner in this subject.

This book was clear about the history of what has happened in Bosnia throughout the years of its rises and falls. This book has alot of historical facts and may not be the book you would want to read for a novel. I recomend this book for the students who are trying to study about Bosnia and need alot of information to get a good idea about what happend. With my personal opion I found the book boring to a sort of extent, yet it gave me the information I needed for my project.