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Author:   Helen Macdonald ,  Ian Harper
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.421kg
ISBN:  

9781138314283

ISBN 10:   1138314285
Pages:   294
Publication Date:   17 September 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"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"

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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.

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