Understanding tuberculosis and its control : anthropological and ethnographic approaches / edited by Helen Macdonald and Ian Harper.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

MacDonald, Helen, editor.

Harper, Ian (Anthropologist), editor.

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tuberculosis--Prevention.

Tuberculosis.

Tuberculosis--prevention & control.

Medical Subjects:

Tuberculosis--prevention & control.

Physical Description:

xi, 282 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.

Contents:

1 Introduction: Persistent pathogen p. 1 / Helen Macdonald and Paul H. Mason and Ian Harper

2 'I wish one of these patients would sue us': Malpractice at the policy level and how Romania is not treating M/XDR-TB this year p. 24 / Jonathan Stillo

3 'Where is the state?' Tuberculosis strategies in Ghana p. 48 / Elisa Vasconi

4 'Time standing still': Nurses, temporality and metaphor in a paediatric tuberculosis ward in Cape Town, South Africa p. 69 / Kate Abney

5 'It's also the system': Republican dilemmas in French tuberculosis prevention p. 88 / Janina Kehr

6 Using local statistics to tinker with TB treatment in a central Indian clinic p. 106 / Helen Macdonald

7 Community DOTS and beyond: Tackling the collective processes that (re)produce tuberculosis in Rio de Janeiro p. 126 / Oriana Rainho Brás and Carlos Machado de Freitas and João Arriscado Nunes

8 The price of free: Contextualizing the unintended expenditures of diagnosing tuberculosis in Kunming, China p. 149 / Emilio Dirlikov

9 Innovating tuberculosis diagnostics for the point of care p. 166 / Nora Engel

10 India's national TB programme: The struggle for innovation and control p. 185 / Mark Nichter

11 Excluded from reciprocity: Tuberculosis, conspicuous consumption and the medicalization of poverty p. 206 / Paul H. Mason

12 Consumed in care: Healthcare workers in Mumbai's TB-control Program p. 221 / Ramila Bisht

13 Between representing and intervening: Diagnosing childhood tuberculosis during a vaccine trial in South Africa p. 241 / Justin Dixon and Michèle Tameris

14 Diagnosing tuberculosis: A case study from Nepal p. 259 / Ian Harper and Rekha Khatri.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781138314276

1138314277

9781138314283

1138314285

OCLC:

1121103811

Publisher Number:

99982508144