Modern medicine has enabled citizens of wealthy, industrialized nations to forget that children once routinely died in shocking numbers. Teaching 19th-century English literature, I regularly encounter ...

According to the World Health Organization, over 10 million people worldwide contracted tuberculosis (TB) in 2023. That same year, TB accounted for 1.25 million fatalities. If you think these figures ...

Modern medicine has enabled citizens of wealthy, industrialized nations to forget that children once routinely died in ...