Ricerc@Sapienza

Tuberculosis (TB) and humans have coexisted for more than 40,000 years; however TB remains a global threat to human kind. The international community has developed new tools for early detection, but TB strains evolved acquiring resistance to first-line therapeutic drugs with increasing treatment challenges. Furthermore, TB has formed also an alliance with human immunodeficiency virus; in this way the poorest populations are most affected. The current vaccine planning activity includes 14 new vaccines against TB (11 of those in the phaseII/III) developed with different techniques.

The book under review addresses two interrelated issues: what constitutes history and how references to the past enable the present to acquire new meanings and legitimacy. Challenging the dominant trend of the rationalist, post-Enlightenment linear conceptualization of history, the two editors, Frank Heidemann and Philipp Zehmisch, aim at presenting alternate understandings by highlighting complex, entangled, and contested counter-narratives. Arguing that history can be space-bound as well as time-bound, the editors make a bid for the recognition of spatiality as a framework of history.