Tuberculosis, history’s deadliest infectious disease, remains a global crisis despite the existence of a cure for decades. Killing over a million people annually, its persistence is not a medical failure but a human one. Explore how deep-seated inequality, shifting racial stigmas, and profit-driven pharmaceutical systems have sustained an epidemic that could be eliminated, revealing a preventable tragedy of our own making.
- AIDS
- antibiotic resistance
- bedaquiline
- consumption
- consumptive chic
- Crash Course
- crashcourse
- DOTs
- drug-resistant TB
- fashion history
- global health
- healthcare access
- healthcare inequality
- history of medicine
- history of tuberculosis
- HIV
- infectious disease
- Johnson & Johnson
- MDR-TB
- medical history
- mycobacterium tuberculosis
- pharmaceutical patents
- Phumeza Tisile
- public health
- racialized medicine
- Robert Koch
- romanticization of illness
- sanitariums
- social determinants of health
- stigma
- TB
- TB cure
- tuberculosis
- XDR-TB
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