Understanding Tuberculosis and its Control

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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• Medicina respiratória
• Sociologia
• Estudos sobre o desenvolvimento
• Saude pessoal e pública
• Doenças infecciosas e contagiosas
• Doença e dependência: aspectos sociais
• Antropologia médica
• Sociologia médica
• Epidemiologia e estatística médica
• Antropologia social e cultural

global health policy;infectious disease anthropology;drug resistance research;health systems analysis;qualitative fieldwork methods;social determinants of disease;ethnographic tuberculosis control studies