Pennsylvania Pioneers Against Tuberculosis

Pioneers in medicine and their impact on tuberculosis

unproblematically, continuing on a trajectory set out in the 1880s, as if there were a giant conspiracy to chastise homosexuality through discussions of the homosexual body, then to more psychological markers, and finally back to the body in terms of the genetic arguments about homosexuality that are current today. I am not suggesting that homosexuality was not often spurned by scientists, but ...

Psychoanalytic Pioneers

Psychoanalysis as a living, growing science is illumined brightly by this examination of the biographies of its foremost exponents. Forty individuals are presented, ranging from early workers such as Abraham, Ferenczi, Jung and Adler to contemporary thinkers such as Alexander, Hartmann, Anna Freud and Erikson. Two additional chapters deal with special developments in the U.SA. and Eng-land. The...

Croydon Pioneers

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Chemotherapeutic Interventions Against Tuberculosis

Tuberculosis is the second leading cause of infectious deaths globally. Many effective conventional antimycobacterial drugs have been available, however, emergence of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) has overshadowed the effectiveness of the current first and second line drugs. Further, currently available agents are complicated by s...

New tactics against tuberculosis.