Understanding Tuberculosis and its Control : Anthropological and Ethnographic Approaches /: Anthropological and Ethnographic Approaches. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Helen Macdonald, Ian Harper.
• Editors: MacDonald, Helen; Harper, Ian
• Contents: 1. Introduction: Persistent pathogen; Helen Macdonald, Paul H. Mason and Ian Harper 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; Jonathan Stillo 3. "Where is the state?" Tuberculosis strategies in Ghana; Elisa Vasconi 4. "Time standing still": Nurses, temporality and metaphor in a paediatric tuberculosis ward in Cape Town, South Africa; Kate Abney 5. "It’s also the system": Republican dilemmas in French tuberculosis prevention; Janina Kehr 6. Using local statistics to tinker with TB treatment in a central Indian clinic; Helen Macdonald 7. Community DOTS and beyond: Tackling the collective processes that (re)produce tuberculosis in Rio de Janeiro; Oriana Rainho Brás, Carlos Machado de Freitas and João Arriscado Nunes 8. The price of free: Contextualizing the unintended expenditures of diagnosing tuberculosis patients in Kunming, China; Emilio Dirlikov 9. Innovating tuberculosis diagnostics for the point of care; Nora Engel 10. India’s national TB programme: The struggle for innovation and control; Mark Nichter 11. Excluded from reciprocity: Tuberculosis, conspicuous consumption and the medicalisation of poverty; Paul H. Mason 12. Consumed in care: Healthcare workers in Mumbai’s TB-control program; Ramila Bisht 13. Between representing and intervening: Diagnosing childhood tuberculosis during a vaccine trial in South Africa; Justin Dixon and Michèle Tameris 14. Dianosing tuberculosis: A case study from Nepal; Ian Harper and Rekha Khatri
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource (282 pages), (8 illustrations)
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780429853722; 0429853726
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.