The Weariness, the Fever and the Fret: The Campaign Against Tuberculosis in Canada, 1900-1950 (Mcgill-Queen's/Hannah Institute Studies in the History of Medicine, Health, and Society, 8.)

Tuberculosis was one of the earliest chronic life-threatening diseases faced by Canadians. In this book, Katherine McCuaig takes an in-depth look at the campaign against TB, from its beginnings as part of the turn-of-the-century urban social reform movement, to the 1950s and the discovery of antibiotics that could cure it.