The return of the white plague : global poverty and the 'new' tuberculosis / edited by Matthew Gandy and Alimuddin Zumla.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gandy, Matthew.

Zumla, Alimuddin.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tuberculosis.

Poverty.

Medical policy.

Physical Description:

vi, 330 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Verso, 2003.

Summary:

As fear and paranoia about chemical weapons and bioterrorism are ratcheted up by Western governments, a global health catastrophe threatens to undermine all efforts to eradicate poverty and human suffering. The resurgence of old diseases such as tuberculosis and malaria, along with the spread of new diseases such as HIV, are already having devastating consequences for ever increasing numbers of people worldwide. Tuberculosis, a disease destined as recently as thirty years ago for complete eradication, is now back on the increase: a total of one third of the world's population is intected with the TB bacillus, and the disease is currently killing around two million people each year. Contrary to popular belief, the enidemic is not contined to, sub-Saharan Africa and parts of Asia: refiecting the increasing divide between rich and poor everywhere, outbreaks of the disease have occurred in London and New York, and prevatence is alarmingly high in eastern Europe and Russia. This book provides an international survey of current thought on the spread and control of tuberculosis, covering historical, social, political, and medical aspects of the crisis. While the contrihutors may differ in their opinions over specific treatments or policy strategies, all are agreed on the overriding thesis of the book -- that the resurgence of disease is one of the most telling indictments of the failure of global political and economic institutions to anprove the lives of ordinary people.

Contents:

Prologue: The Return of Old Diseases and the Appearance of New Ones / Richard Lewontin, Richard Levins 1

Part I History and Context

1 Life without Germs: Contested Episodes in the History of Tuberculosis / Matthew Gandy 15

2 Immigration, Race and Geographies of Difference in the Tuberculosis Pandemic / Nicholas B. King 39

3 Gender and Tuberculosis: A Conceptual Framework for Identifying Gender Inequalities / Anna Thorson, Vinod K. Diwan 55

4 War and Disease: Some Perspectives on the Spatial and Temporal Occurrence of Tuberculosis in Wartime / Matthew Smallman-Raynor, Andrew D. Cliff 70

Part II The 'New' Tuberculosis

5 The Present Global Burden of Tuberculosis / Leopold Blanc, Mukund Uplekar 95

6 Tuberculosis and HIV Infection in Sub-Saharan Africa / Anthony D. Harries, Nicola J. Hargreaves, Alimuddin Zumla 112

7 The Recent Tuberculosis Epidemic in New York City: Warning from the De-Developing World / Deborah Wallace, Rodrick Wallace 125

8 Private Wealth and Public Squalor: The Resurgence of Tuberculosis in London / Alistair Story, Ken Citron 147

9 The Social Impact of Multi-drug-resistant Tuberculosis: Haiti and Peru / Paul Farmer, David Walton 163

10 The House of the Dead Revisited: Prisons, Tuberculosis and Public Health in the Former Soviet Bloc / Vivien Stern 178

Part III Advocacy and Action

11 Rethinking the Social Context of Illness: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Tuberculosis Control / Christian Lienhardt, Jessica Ogden, Oumou Sow 195

12 Reflections on the Role of Science in Tuberculosis Control / T. Mark Doherty, Martin E. Munk, Peter Andersen 207

13 Global Poverty and Tuberculosis: Implications for Ethics and Human Rights / Solomon R. Benatar 222

Epilogue: Politics, Science and the 'New' Tuberculosis / Alimuddin Zumla, Matthew Gandy 237.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [243]-301) and index.

ISBN:

1859846696

OCLC:

52386424