Author Interview: Kathryn Lougheed on Tuberculosis

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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History, Society & Culture

4.2 • 23.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2018

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Tuberculosis is often thought of as a disease of the past, but it remains a problem in many parts of the world. Microbiologist and author Kathryn Lougheed joins Holly for a discussion of TB’s long history and the need to address it in the modern age.

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0:36.1	Hello and welcome to the podcast, I'm Holly Frye, and I'm Tracy V. Wilson.
0:46.8	So, like months and months ago, like the beginning of 2017,
0:50.9	our colleague Julie put a book on my desk titled Catching Breath,
0:54.9	The Making and Unmaking of Tiberculosis, and I was so excited about it
0:58.8	that it became comical in the office.
1:00.9	I think my actual immediate reaction was, we have to have this author on
1:04.5	because so many great people died from TB.
1:06.7	Chino is not the most respectful way to look at it,
1:09.7	but I was really excited about this book.
1:11.4	When I was a child, I was afraid of TB, because my grandmother,
1:15.9	long before my was born or my mother was born, my grandmother was a child.
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