White plague, Black labor : tuberculosis and the political economy of health and disease in South Africa / Randall M. Packard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Packard, Randall M., 1945- Author.

Series:

Comparative studies of health systems and medical care ; volume 23.

Comparative studies of health systems and medical care ; 23

Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care ; 23

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tuberculosis--South Africa--History.

Tuberculosis.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (414 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [1989]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Why does tuberculosis, a disease which is both curable and preventable, continue to produce over 50,000 new cases a year in South Africa, primarily among blacks? In answering this question Randall Packard traces the history of one of the most devastating diseases in twentieth-century Africa, against the background of the changing political and economic forces that have shaped South African society from the end of the nineteenth century to the present. These forces have generated a growing backlog of disease among black workers and their families and at the same time have prevented the development of effective public health measures for controlling it. Packard's rich and nuanced analysis is a significant contribution to the growing body of literature on South Africa's social history as well as to the history of medicine and the political economy of health.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

List of Tables and Graphs

Abbreviations

Map

Preface

Introduction: Industrialization and the Political Economy of Tuberculosis

CHAPTER I. Preindustrial South Africa: A Virgin Soil for Tuberculosis ?

CHAPTER II. Urban Growth, "Consumption," and the "Dressed Native/' 1870-1914

CHAPTER III. Black Mineworkers and the Production of Tuberculosis, 1870-1914

CHAPTER IV. Migrant Labor and the Rural Expansion of Tuberculosis, 1870-1938

CHAPTER V. Slumyards and the Rising Tide of Tuberculosis, 1914-1938

CHAPTER VI. Labor Supplies and Tuberculosis on the Witwatersrand 1913-1938

CHAPTER VII. Segregation and Racial Susceptibility: The Ideological Foundations of Tuberculosis Control, 1913-1938

CHAPTER VIII. Industrial Expansion, Squatters, and the Second Tuberculosis Epidemic, 1938-1948

CHAPTER IX. Tuberculosis and Apartheid: The Great Disappearing Act, 1948-1980

Epilogue: The Present and Future of Tuberculosis in South Africa

Notes

Select Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Bibliography: p. 367-377.

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ISBN:

9786612355462

9781282355460

1282355465

9780520909120

0520909127

9780585123677

0585123675

OCLC:

43476396