The return of the white plague: global poverty and the "new" tuberculosis/
edited by Matthew Gandy and Alimuddin Zumla
- London: Verso, 2003.
- vi, 330 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Prologue : the return of the old diseases and the appearance of new ones / Richard Lewontin and Richard Levins -- Introduction / Matthew Gandy and Alimuddin Zumla -- Part 1. History and context -- Life without germs : contested episodes in the history of tuberculosis / Matthew Gandy -- Immigration, race, and geographies of difference in the tuberculosis pandemic / Nicholas B. King -- Gender and tuberculosis : a conceptual framework for identifying gender inequalities / Anna Thorson and Vinod K. Diwan -- War and disease : some perspectives on the spatial and temporal occurrence of tuberculosis in wartime / Matthew Smallman-Raynor and Andrew D. Cliff -- Part 2. The "new" tuberculosis -- The present global burden of tuberculosis / Léopold Blanc and Mukund Uplekar -- Tuberculosis and HIV infection in sub-Saharan Africa / Anthony D. Harries, Nicola J. Hargreaves, and Alimuddin Zumla -- The recent tuberculosis epidemic in New York City : warning from the de-developing world / Deborah Wallace and Rodrick Wallace -- Private wealth and public squalor : the resurgence of tuberculosis in London / Alistair Story and Ken Citron -- The social impact of multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis : Haiti and Peru / Paul Farmer and David Walton -- The House of the dead revisited : prisons, tuberculosis, and public health in the former Soviet bloc / Vivien Stern -- Part 3. Advocacy and action -- Rethinking the social context of illness : interdisciplinary approaches to tuberculosis control / Christian Lienhardt, Jessica Ogden and Oumou Sow -- Reflections on the role of science in tuberculosis control / T. Mark Doherty, Martin E. Munk, and Peter Andersen -- Global poverty and tuberculosis : implications for ethics and human rights / Solomon R. Benatar -- Epilogue : politics, science, and the "new" tuberculosis / Alimuddin Zumla and Matthew Gandy.