Disease and class: tuberculosis and the shaping of modern North American society

Introduction : Tuberculosis as a different kind of disease

Disease and the agrarian order : tuberculosis before Koch

Coping with Koch's challenges : bacteria, biologics, and the economy of disease, 1880-1915

Spit and polish : the middle-class crusade to build resistance, 1900-1925

Medicine, science, and the national interest : American responses to the BCG vaccine in the 1920s

For cows, boys, and Indians : North American trials of BCG, 1924-1946

"Not a substitute for approved hygienic measures" : BCG and the postwar campaign against tuberculosis

Conclusion : Restoring history to understand the resurgence of tuberculosis.