In an era in which we have effective therapies, why has tuberculosis remained the leading
infectious cause of young adult deaths in much of the world? This article argues that in order …

During the 1930s, Chile reported the world's highest mortality rate due to tuberculosis. In this
pre-antibiotic era, the attention of the biomedical community frequently turned to the …

Tuberculosis is an infectious disease with a long and established association with human
populations. This review discusses and integrates an ethnographic study of public health …

One-third of the world's population is currently infected with the TB bacillus and up to ten
percent of these individuals will go on to develop tuberculosis. Today the disease is most …

The resurgence of tuberculosis in recent years has obliged us to reconsider the existing
explanations of the disease. Whereas biomedical literature tends to explain tuberculosis in …

In much of the world, tuberculosis (TB) remains the leading killer of young adults, in spite of
the fact that effective chemotherapy has existed for 50 years. The epidemiology of TB, with …

Tuberculosis (TB) researchers and clinicians, by virtue of the social disease they study, are
drawn into an engagement with ways of understanding illness that extend beyond the strictly …

Despite global strides made in prevention and treatment, tuberculosis (TB) remains an acute
problem for Indigenous people in Canada. TB affects Indigenous communities at …

Tuberculosis—once the cause of as many as one in five deaths in the US—crossed all
boundaries of class and gender, but the methods of treatment for men and women differed …

In this article I use Margaret Lock's concept of local biology as a standpoint to view
tuberculosis as a threshold where distinctions between social and biological aspects of …