Throughout the book, he interweaves Henry's story with scientific and social histories of how tuberculosis has shaped our world — and how our choices will shape the future of tuberculosis. View Deal ...

Later, a hospital opened on the island for quarantined patients, after New York launched the country’s first campaign to control the “white plague” (as tuberculosis was known) then ...

The end of British colonial rule birthed two sovereign nations—but hastily drawn borders caused simmering tensions to boil over. 75 years later, memories of Partition still haunt survivors.