Must we all die Alaska s enduring struggle with tuberculosis 1st Edition by Robert Fortuine ISBN ‎ 1646426797 ‎ 978-1646426799

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ISBN 10:  1646426797 

ISBN 13:  ‎ 978-1646426799

Author: Robert Fortuine

Alaska Natives have struggled with the ‘white plague’ of tuberculosis for centuries. At last, physician and historian Robert Fortuine brings their story to light. He provides a comprehensive account of tuberculosis from its earliest occurrence in prehistory through the latest outbreaks, made more threatening by HIV/AIDS. Fortuine describes the courage and self-sacrifice of itinerant nurses who endured challenging and often dangerous conditions, as well as the efforts of doctors who fought cuts in funding as valiantly as they battled for the lives of their patients.

Fortuine chronicles the removal of tuberculosis victims, many of them children, from their families and villages to hospitals in the Lower 48 states. He describes treatments, medical advances, and day-to-day life for the nurses, physicians, missionaries, and teachers who worked to stem the tide that killed and disabled thousands. The struggle against tuberculosis in Alaska is a story of triumph against untold suffering and crippling odds, but it is also a cautionary tale as an increasingly resistant strain of this disease has emerged in the twenty-first century.

“Must We All Die?” is an encyclopedic contribution to the history of medicine and a tribute to those who fought tuberculosis and to the Alaska Natives who endured a cruel disease that destroyed families and ravaged villages.

Table of contents: 

1. Tuberculosis: An Ancient Affliction

2. Whence the Scourge?
   Origin and Spread of Tuberculosis in Alaska

3. An Enemy Stalks the Land
   Tuberculosis Ascendant

4. Arming for the Coming Conflict
   The First Skirmishes

5. By Land, Sea, and Air
   The Public Health Campaign

6. Taking Prisoners
   The Sanatorium Campaign

7. The Juggernaut
   Tuberculosis in Retreat

8. A Resilient Foe
   The Price of Complacency

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