Consumed in the city : observing tuberculosis at century's end / Paul Draus.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Draus, Paul Joseph.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tuberculosis--New York (State)--Epidemiology.

Tuberculosis.

Tuberculosis--Illinois--Chicago--Epidemiology.

Urban health--New York (State).

Urban health.

Urban health--Illinois--Chicago.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (305 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, PA : Temple University Press, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

As a public health field worker assigned to control tuberculosis in New York and Chicago in the 1990's, Paul Draus encountered the horrible effects of tuberculosis resurgence in urban areas, and the intersections of disease, blight, and poverty. Consumed in the City grows out of his experiences and offers a persuasive case for thinking about-and treating-tuberculosis as an inseparable component of the scourges of poverty, homelessness, AIDS, and drug abuse. It is impossible, Draus argues, to treat and eliminate tuberculosis without also treating the social ills that underlie the new

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Prologue: A Day in the Life, Chicago, 1998; Introduction: TB and Sociology; 1 Bugs in the Big Apple: Chasing TB in NYC; 2 Slow Motion Disaster: Postindustrial Poverty and the Return of TB; 3 The Public Hospital: Battles on the TB Frontier; 4 Cavities of Contagion: Networks and Nodes of TB in Chicago; 5 Welcome to the West Side: Hanging Out in TB Alley; 6 Hard Case Histories: Narratives of Tuberculosis, Homelessness, and Addiction; 7 Difficult Negotiations: Coercion, Care, and Compliance in TB Therapy; 8 Sheep's Clothing: Lessons Learned from TB in the Field

Conclusion: Implications of a Marginal Epidemic Epilogue: Back on the Corner, Chicago, 2002; Notes; Works Cited; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-283) and index.

ISBN:

9786611093648

9781281093646

1281093645

9781592137701

1592137709

OCLC:

476074916