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Previous Volume 351:2665-2666 December 16, 2004 Number 25

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Edited by Matthew Gandy and Alimuddin Zumla. 330 pp., illustrated. New York, Verso, 2003. $35. ISBN 1-85984-669-6.

Since the World Health Organization declared tuberculosis a global emergency in 1993, its resurgence has become the source of several recent publications. Gandy and Zumla have assembled a prestigious and knowledgeable group of authors for an updated account that appropriately goes beyond the usual biomedical assessment of the current global situation. As suggested by the title and an introductory quotation provided by the editors, René and Jean Dubos had already drawn attention to the social and economic aspects of tuberculosis 51 years earlier in The White Plague: Tuberculosis, Man and Society (Camden, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1952).

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