| Credits | 1 |
| Restrictions | No 2028 2027 |
| Pre-Requisites | Students may not take more than 1 CORE Sciences course |
| Co-Requisites | |
| Core Area | Sciences |
| Area of Inquiry | |
| Liberal Arts Practices |
Tuberculosis (also known as consumption or TB) might be best known as the disease which killed the poet Keats or the character Satine in the movie Moulin Rouge - but it is one of the oldest known human diseases and still remains a leading cause of death worldwide. Students explore the history and science of tuberculosis as a way to think about disease in society. Topics include conceptualizations of illness, disease and cure; TB and the development of biomedicine from bacteriology to antibiotics to pasteurization; poverty, malnutrition, and exploitative labor conditions in the transmission of TB; histories of race, gender, and TB treatment; TB as an opportunistic infection for HIV/AIDS; the current impacts of multidrug-resistant TB globally.