The return of the white plague: global poverty and the "new" tuberculosis/ edited by Matthew Gandy and Alimuddin Zumla
Material type: TextPublication details: London: Verso, 2003Description: vi, 330 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cmISBN: 9781859846698Subject(s): Poverty | Tuberculosis | Medical policyDDC classification: 614.542Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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General Books | Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section | 614.542 GAN/T (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | P02315 |
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.
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