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(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 20th century will describe a bimodal incidence in many of the industrialized nations. After a long period of steady decline, in the final 15 years of the century the pathogen confounded all predictions and made a dramatic resurgence. A similar trend, albeit delayed by a number of years, will be seen in public health expenditures for the control of tuberculosis in these countries. Although it will be more difficult to discern, historians may also describe a parallel decline in medical expertise in all aspects of tuberculosis and a considerable delay before the trend . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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