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 …

Biomedical innovations are unlikely to provide effective and ethical tuberculosis (TB) control
measures without complementary social science research. However, a strong interest in …

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 …

Anthropologists recognize the importance of conceptualizing health in the context of the
mutually evolving nature of biology and culture through the biocultural approach, but …

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 …

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 …

The perspective of local microbiologies brings attributes of microbes squarely into the
anthropological purview, underscoring dialectics of biology and culture in which infectious …

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 …

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 …

Publisher Summary This chapter focuses on the articulation of personal narratives and
larger public discourses, including scientific discourses, that relate to health and illness. It …