Understanding Tuberculosis and its Control (eBook, ePUB)

Anthropological and Ethnographic Approaches
Redaktion: Macdonald, Helen; Harper, Ian

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Drawing on ethnographic case studies the volume considers the relationship between global and national policies and their unintended effects, the emergence and impact of introducing new diagnostics, and the impact of the disease on health workers as well as patients.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 294
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. September 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429853722
• Artikelnr.: 57627046

Autorenporträt

Helen Macdonald is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. Ian Harper is Professor of Anthropology of Health and Development and Director of the Centre for Medical Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Persistent pathogen 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 3. "Where is the state?" Tuberculosis strategies in
Ghana 4. "Time standing still": Nurses, temporality and metaphor in a
paediatric tuberculosis ward in Cape Town, South Africa 5. "It's also the
system": Republican dilemmas in French tuberculosis prevention 6. Using
local statistics to tinker with TB treatment in a central Indian clinic 7.
Community DOTS and beyond: Tackling the collective processes that
(re)produce tuberculosis in Rio de Janeiro 8. The price of free:
Contextualizing the unintended expenditures of diagnosing tuberculosis
patients in Kunming, China 9. Innovating tuberculosis diagnostics for the
point of care 10. India's national TB programme: The struggle for
innovation and control 11. Excluded from reciprocity: Tuberculosis,
conspicuous consumption and the medicalization of poverty 12. Consumed in
car: Healthcare workers in Mumbai's TB-control program 13. Between
representing and intervening: Diagnosing childhood tuberculosis during a
vaccine trial in South Africa 14. Diagnosing tuberculosis: A case study
from Nepal