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Phantom Plague: How Tuberculosis Shaped History

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The definitive social history of tuberculosis, from its ancient origins to nineteenth-century epidemics to its modern reemergence amongst the global poor

“Krishnan is a powerful storyteller, and her accounts of frustration, suffering, grief and resilience are moving.”―Wall Street Journal


It killed novelist George Orwell, Eleanor Roosevelt, and millions of others – rich and poor. Desmond Tutu, Amitabh Bachchan, and Nelson Mandela survived it, just. For centuries, tuberculosis has ravaged cit...