(Lung Biology in Health and Disease. Vol. 66.) Edited by Lee B. Reichman and Earl S. Hershfield. 752 pp., illustrated. New York, Marcel Dekker, 1993. $195. ISBN 0-8247-8852-4.
Future medical historians examining tuberculosis in the 20thcentury will describe a bimodal incidence in many of the industrializednations. After a long period of steady decline, in the final15 years of the century the pathogen confounded all predictionsand made a dramatic resurgence. A similar trend, albeit delayedby a number of years, will be seen in public health expendituresfor the control of tuberculosis in these countries. Althoughit will be more difficult to discern, historians may also describea parallel decline in medical expertise in all aspects of tuberculosisand a considerable delay before the trend . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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