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""" Tuberculosis in the Americas contributes to tuberculosis and public health history through its painstaking documentation and broad-ranging study of institutions, treatments, medical discourse, and social conditions in these two cities of North and South America."" - Charmaine Robson , University of New South Wales "" The book would work well in a number of undergraduate health courses in a variety of disciplines. Its transnational historical overview can serve as a textbook for novices, while still including interpretative claims that can spur classroom discussion. In particular, students could tackle the central claim of the book..."" - Kelly Urban, University of South Alabama, John Hopkins University Press"

Tuberculosis in the Americas contributes to tuberculosis and public health history through its painstaking documentation and broad-ranging study of institutions, treatments, medical discourse, and social conditions in these two cities of North and South America. - Charmaine Robson , University of New South Wales The book would work well in a number of undergraduate health courses in a variety of disciplines. Its transnational historical overview can serve as a textbook for novices, while still including interpretative claims that can spur classroom discussion. In particular, students could tackle the central claim of the book... - Kelly Urban, University of South Alabama, John Hopkins University Press

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Vera Blinn Reber earned a PhD from the University of Wisconsin with specialization on Latin American and Comparative History. She taught World and Latin American History at Shippensburg University for 37 years. Her primary research interests are Argentine and Paraguayan nineteenth century economic history and urban medical history.

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